"But I am, Molly."
"I don't think of you so," she retorted. Again, as in the case of Kesiah's advances, she was refusing to constitute a law by her acknowledgment.
"Don't you think if you tried very hard you might begin to?"
"Why should I try?"
"Well, suppose we say just because I want you to."
"That wouldn't help me. I can't feel that it would make any difference."
"What I want, you mean?"
"Yes, what you want."
"Aren't you a shade more tolerant of my existence than you were at first?"
"I suppose so, but I've never thought about it—any more than I've thought of this ten thousand a year. It's all outside of my life, but grandfather's in it."