"That's not exactly your business, is it?"
"It wouldn't be if I didn't know Sue."
"What do you know?"
"I know that in spite of all her talk and the way she acts and honestly feels whenever she's with you," I replied, "Sue wants to hang on to her home and us. She isn't the heroic kind. She can't just follow along with you and leave all this she's used to."
Joe's face clouded a little.
"She'll get over that," he muttered.
"Perhaps she will and perhaps she won't. How do you know? You want to know, don't you? You want her to be happy?"
"No, that's not what I want most. Being happy isn't the only thing——"
"Then tell her so. That's all I ask. I'll tell you what I've come for, Joe. You've always been more honest, more painfully blunt and open than any man I've ever known. Be that way now with Sue. Give her the plainest, hardest picture you can of the life you're getting her into."
"I've tried to do that already."