So she sat down beside him and he told her of the map in his pocket. He took it out and spread it before her. And she leaned toward it in the dim light—studying the discolored lines as he explained them to her.
“Do you want—to go—so much?” she asked, looking up at last.
“If you want to—Yes.”
She was silent a minute.
“Martin thinks he is going to be an engineer,” she said irrelevantly.
He spurned it. “Martin has sense—he doesn’t need his mother—to have sense for him!”
“But an engineer!” she said.
“They will lead the world to-morrow,” he responded.
“Oh—!” It was a little sigh of surprise and relief.
“I didn’t know engineers were anything important!” she added after a minute. Then she laughed out.