Why don't you ?" Imogene put out a hand in protest.
"You know why, Lee; I've told you," she said, earnestly.
"No more can I, for the same reason," was his reply.

He turned and lifted his hat and gloves from the table.

"I will have no act of mine cut her adrift and push her under.

Much better to stand the gaff.

I suppose one hardens to anything in time." His look wandered about the room.