"I don't know what you'd be to me because I've so many other things to think of first."
"What sort of things?"
"What your folks would say, for one."
He replied, with a shade of embarrassment: "They'd say some pretty mean things, to begin with."
"And to end with?"
"They'd give in. They'd have to. Families always do when you only leave them Hobson's choice."
She dropped into the studio idiom.
"That wouldn't be all pie for me, would it?"
"Is anything ever all pie? You've got to work for your living in this old world if you want to eat. I'm ready to work for this, Jennie. I'm ready to move mountains for it, and, by God! I'm going to move them! But do you know why?"
She said, shyly, "I suppose because you like me."