“Well, but—Graham, isn't that the same thing? If he wants to be?”
The minister shook his head.
“He doesn't want to be. But he has some purpose in it. He is doing it—perhaps—well—it might be for her sake you know.”
The mother looked perplexed, and hesitated, then shook her head.
“That would be—preposterous! How could he hurt her so—if he cared. It must be—he does not care—!”
“He cares!” said the man.
“Then how do you explain it?”
“I don't explain it.”
“Are you going to let it go on?”
“What can be done?”