"But what will it lead to? Your attachment is not serious, I presume?"
"I don't know but it may be. The fact is, Robert, I am in love."
"Were you ever in love before, Mr. Palmer?"
"Never. This is the first time I have met my ideal."
"You surely wouldn't think of marrying her," said Robert.
"Why not?"
"I thought perhaps you would not care to marry on ten dollars a week."
"I could not. But she is probably earning considerably more. If we both of us worked, there would be a nice income between us."
"Then you would not object to your wife appearing in a theater?"