"Of course under any circumstances I shall see you are well provided for."
Virginia made a gesture of dissent.
"Oh, no!" she cried.
"You mean that you wouldn't take-any allowance?"
"Yes! I came to you with nothing—that is what I'll take away."
"Now do be a sensible little woman," he said coaxingly. "If you won't take anything from me, where are you to go, what are you to do?"
"You seem to forget that I managed to live before I met you!"
"You would try to do as you did then?"
"Why not?"
"Because it's impossible—absolutely impossible."