"I could what?"
"Do everything you ought—everything I imagine, I dream of. You are clever: you can never make me believe the contrary after your speech on Tuesday, Don't speak to me! I've seen, I've heard, and I know what's in you. I shall hold you to it. You're everything you pretend not to be."
Nick looked at the water while she talked. "Will it always be so amusing?" he asked.
"Will what always be?"
"Why my career."
"Shan't I make it so?"
"Then it will be yours—it won't be mine," said Nick.
"Ah don't say that—don't make me out that sort of woman! If they should say it's me I'd drown myself."
"If they should say what's you?"
"Why your getting on. If they should say I push you and do things for you. Things I mean that you can't do yourself."