“It’s a fact,” he ran on. “Why, you can get hungry if you don’t have too much money; and, 250 honest, I’ve had better things to eat this summer, because of that, than I ever had in my life. Then, if you don’t have too much money, you can work. It sounds strange to say there’s any fun in that, but there is. I want to get you into the game, Frances. You’re going to like it. Farnsworth is going to let me sell next month. It’s like making the ’Varsity. I’m going to have a salary and commission, so you see it will be partly a personal fight. You can help me. Why, the very things we were planning to get done with before we married are the very things that are worth while. We can stand shoulder to shoulder now and play the game together. You can have part of the fun.”
She thrilled with the magic of his voice, but his words were quite meaningless.
“You aren’t looking at the stars,” he reminded her. She looked up again.
“So,” he said, “there’s no sense in waiting any longer, is there? The sooner we’re married, the sooner we can begin. If we’re married to-morrow, we’ll have almost two weeks in the mountains. And then––”
She appeared frightened.
“Oh, Don, we––we couldn’t get married like that, anyway.”
“Why not?” he demanded.
“It––it isn’t possible.”
“Certainly it’s possible.”