"You ask me to give it up ?" she repeated slowly.

"But why do you ask me ?" "Because I cannot associate it with you--to me it is impossible that you should do it." Elfrida lifted her eyebrows a little.

"Do you know why I am doing it ?" she asked.
"I think so." "It is not a mere escapade, you understand.

And these people do not pay me anything.

That is quite just, because I have never learned to act and I haven't much voice.