Her face lit up with pleasure.
"Really?" she exclaimed. "It isn't true?"
"Not a word of it. I have money invested in stocks and bonds, but anyone who accuses me of wild cat speculation is guilty of telling what I would very politely call a d——d lie!"
Reassured more by his ease and carelessness of manner than by his actual words of denial, the young wife gave an exclamation of delight.
"Oh, I'm so glad!" she exclaimed. "You've no idea how relieved I feel. It was worrying me terribly to feel that you might be in difficulties and had not thought enough of me to take me into your confidence." Looking at him appealingly she added:
"You will always confide in me, won't you Ken?"
"Sure I will, sweetheart——"
Trembling with the ardor he was trying to control he seized hold of her hand and drew her on to his knee. She offered no resistance, but passively sat there, clasped against his broad shoulder, her face radiant with happiness at the load which his words had taken off her mind.
Putting his arm round her waist, he leaned forward as if to kiss her, but drawing quickly back she said:
"There's still something else I must ask you before my happiness is quite complete."