"And if she refuses?"
"Then I'll go one after another to several very rich men I know, and ask them as a business proposition."
"Go in person," advised he with an undisguised sneer.
"I'll raise no false hopes in them," she said. "If they choose to delude themselves, I'll not go out of my way to undeceive them—until I have to."
"So THIS is Mildred Gower?"
"You made that remark before."
"Really?"
"When Stanley showed you a certain photograph of me."
"I remember. This is the same woman."
"It's me," laughed she. "The real me. You'd not care to be married to her?"