You--" "We will talk of something else, George, if you don't mind," she said, relaxing suddenly.

She sat down beside him once more, rather limply and with a deep, long-drawn sigh, as if she had spent herself in this single exposition of feeling.

"Now what do you intend to do in regard to Lutie?
Are you ready to straighten up and make the effort to--to be something creditable to yourself and to her ?" "Oh, I've tried to hold down a good many respectable jobs," he scoffed.
"It's no good trying.

I'm too busy thinking of her to be able to devote much of my remarkable intelligence to ordinary work." "Well, you've never had me behind you till now," she said.

"I am perfectly able to think for you, if you'll let me.