She caught her breath at that, and insisted upon withdrawing her hand.
“I used to think I’d like to be,” she answered.
“And now?”
She shook her head.
He had swung the talk back to her again, when the talk should have been all of him and Frances.
“It’s in you to get everything in the world you want,” she said. “I’m sure of that. All you have to do is to want it hard enough. And now there are so many things right within your grasp. You won’t let go of them?”
“No,” he answered.
“Your home, your wife, and your work––it’s wonderful to make good in so many things all at once! So––good-bye.”
“You talk as if you were not coming back again!”