"Never mind. It did me no real harm. I've had no relapse. And we've got each other and the children. There are rich people who'd change with us. Let's forget the bad news and the other troubles till after Christmas——"
"How can we forget being hungry?"
"By eating an orange!" The man tried to laugh. "We've got plenty of those."
"Just now we have. But if we're turned out?" 17
"We must do as Adam and Eve did when they were turned out of Eden. They found work, I suppose. So shall we. Though God knows it almost kills me to think of what I've brought on you and the babies."
"Don't say 'you'! You've never brought anything but happiness to us or anybody."
"I'm afraid—I've thought, sometimes—I had no right to marry you."
"Why, life wouldn't have been life for me without you, Paul!"
"Or for me without you, Suze."
"And all we've gone through has only drawn us closer together. But this last blow is different. It's too cruel! . . . That Judas of a man, Siegel, making us believe he was our good friend and he doing you a great kindness selling you this garden and the business so cheap! Think, Paul, how he described it, only last August, just after I found you in Antwerp when you were getting well after your wound. Would one believe a man could make up his mind to ruin another who'd nearly given his life for his country? Plan and plan to rob him of his savings, pretending all the time to open the 18 gates of Paradise——"