"But what can I do?"
"Do you mean for a living?"
As she nodded speechlessly, he smiled, with a faint shrug of the shoulders.
"That's not for me to decide, is it, Jennie? Once you've left me—"
"I'm not leaving you. You're driving me away."
"Suppose we said that life was separating us? Wouldn't that express it better? We've—we've liked each other. I've never made any secret of it on my side—have I, Jennie?—though you're so terribly discreet on yours. And yet life—"
"I've only been discreet about one thing."
"But that one thing is the whole business."
"And I wouldn't be discreet about that if there was any other way."
"There's the way I've told you about."