“There’s nothing so very sad in it,” she declared stubbornly.

“There isn’t?”

“No.”

His admiration for her developed. Erna certainly possessed sterling qualities.

“But I haven’t finished,” she interposed.

“Never mind, Erna. I’ve heard enough.”

“You haven’t heard why I quit my ‘parents’.”

“I don’t have to,” he tried to stop her.

“There’s only a little to it.”

“Well?”