“Of course he’ll have to get a living dear. But we’ve decided to ignore the world.”
What did she mean by that.... “You won’t have to.”
“Well dear I mean let the world go by.”
“I see. He’s a jewel. I think you’ve made a very good choice. You can make your mind easy about that. I saw the great medicine man to-day.”
“It was all settled without that dear. I never even thought about him.”
“You needn’t. No woman need. He’s a man who doesn’t know his own mind and never will. I doubt very much whether he has a mind to know. If he ever marries he will marry a wife, not any particular woman; a smart worldly woman for his profession, or a thoroughly healthy female who’ll keep a home in the country for him and have children and pour out his tea and grow things in the garden, while he flirts with patients in town. He’s most awfully susceptible.”
“I expect we shan’t live in London.”
“Well that’ll be better for you won’t it?”
“How do you mean de-er?”
“Well. I ought to tell you Dr. Densley told me you ought to go abroad.”