She tried to make her voice natural, but there was a tightening in her throat.
“I haven’t done much figuring of any kind along that line,” she said.
He was looking out to sea.
“I don’t know but what both men and women are better off unmarried,” he said.
“They aren’t,” she answered.
It was some one within her rather than she herself who spoke. He turned to look at her, but her eyes were out at sea.
“You mean that?” he said.
“I mean it,” she answered.
“Even if a man hasn’t much money?”