"You mean that you don't want to take my—necessities—into consideration."
"I mean that when I see the one thing right to do, I don't have to look any further."
"The one thing right to do—for you?—or for me?"
"There's no reason why I should intervene at all. I look to you to save me from the necessity."
He hesitated a minute before deciding whether to hedge or to meet her squarely.
"By giving up Evie and—clearing out," he said, with a perceptible hint of defiance.
"I shouldn't lay stress on your—clearing out."
"But you would on my giving up Evie?"
"Don't you see," she began, in an explanatory tone, "I, in my own person, have nothing to do with it? It isn't for me to say this should be done or that. You can't imagine how hard it is for me to say anything at all; and if I speak, it isn't as myself—it's as the voice of a situation. You must understand as well as I do what that situation imposes."
"But I don't intend that a situation shall impose anything—on me. I mean to act as master—"