“Very little.”
“I could make it pay any time that I wanted to.”
“Sometimes I wonder if you are in full possession of your senses.”
“Caroline is affected that way, too. I feel that she is likely to get an alienist in at any time. She is so earnest in anything she undertakes. She and Billy have had a scrap, did you know it?”
“I didn’t.”
“Billy wants to marry her, and he has shocked her delicate feelings by suggesting it to her.”
“I imagine you have a good deal to do with her feelings on the subject,” Dick said gloomily. “I suppose at heart you don’t believe in 190 marriage, or think you don’t and you’ve communicated the poison to Caroline.”
“I’ve done nothing of the kind,” Nancy insisted warmly. “I do believe in marriage with all my heart. I think the greatest service any woman can render her kind in this mix-up age is to marry one man and make that marriage work by taking proper scientific care of him and his children.”
“This is news to me,” Dick said. “I thought that you thought that the greatest service a woman could do was to run Outside Inn, and stuff all the derelicts with calories.”
“That’s a service, too.”