It only remained for her to be clever enough to keep him at arm's length.

She had no fear for herself.
"I haven't thought about the matter at all," she answered carelessly, "but to me all creditors would be the same, whether they were kind or unkind.

I hate the feeling of owing anything." "It is a question," he observed, "how far one can be said to owe anything to those who are really friends.

A husband, for instance.

One can't keep a ledger account with him." "A husband is a different matter altogether," she asserted coldly.