"But you have done it all!" she reiterated.
"Two authors always have to drive tandem in a case like this."
"How it will succeed!" she said dreamily. "You would hardly believe me if I should tell you how much we shall make out of this."
He turned and resolutely tied up the loose pages. The flush of a new energy was on him.
"What are you going to do?" she asked quickly.
"I'm going at it again—I've had a dozen ideas while you've been talking to me—I feel that I've got to go at it tooth and nail again."
"And it's agreed that you take one-half the royalties?" she broke in.
"No, no; the name, the start—that's quite all I ask."
She did not understand. "The start?"
"Yes, I can wait until I write my own book for dollars and royalties, and all that sort of thing. Now I'm glad enough to stand humbly beside you."