"Why not?"
"But you are beautiful."
"Thanks, my comrade."
"And there will always be money in the house."
"It is true."
"And beauty and money, what will they not tempt men to do?"
"I shall have a protector."
This was a blow to me, and she must have seen it, for she said quickly, putting her hand on my arm, that the sergeant and his wife whom she had been staying with since her mother's death would keep house for her.
"Oh," I cried, "I am so glad and I was so sorry."