"I've given up expecting him," she said at last.
"Ho! ho! So that's out of the way."
She pretended to be scanning the documents before her so as to be able to sit with her back to him.
"It isn't, for the reason that there's—no way," she said, after some hesitation.
"Oh yes, there is," he laughed, "where there's a will."
"But I've no will."
"I have; I've enough for two."
"I'll tell you what you have got," she said, half turning and speaking to him over the back of her chair. He drew near her. "You've got a great deal of common sense, and I want to ask your advice."
"I can give that, as radium emits light—without ever diminishing the original store."
"Then tell me. Has one ever the right to interfere where a man and a woman—"