"That's right, Jim, take the lion's share to yourself."
"Well, shouldn't I be paying the largest price for getting the cash?"
Leah shrugged her shoulders again. "There would be very little sacrifice in it so far as you are concerned," she said. "You've been three times to South America since we were married, and I presume with this money you would go there again."
"I'd go out of your life for ever."
"Oh, well," she said coolly; "I could show my respect to your memory by wearing a widow's dress. I expect I should look rather nice in a cap."
Lord Jim was rather disgusted. Little as he loved his wife, he expected her to be devotedly attached to him, and her ready acquiescence in his disappearance annoyed him greatly.
"You've got no heart."
"How clever of you to guess that! I gave it to you five years ago."
"And took it back before the honeymoon was over."
"Well, you see, Jim, you are so careless a man that I could not think of leaving the only heart I possess in your hands. Besides, so many women have given you their hearts that I thought you might confuse the lot."