“For God’s sake, don’t begin that. I can’t have them myself, can I? And it isn’t just babies and servants.”
“No, but you have to understand that the strain——”
“I know all about that. I haven’t had it off my mind for three years. I am trying to get it off Cecily’s mind. That’s the reason I think she ought to get about a bit—judging from the way I feel myself.”
“That’s it, Dick.”
“What’s it?”
“Judging from the way you feel yourself, you think Cecily ought to want the things you want. Instead, she wants something else.”
“I wish I knew what it was. I’d do anything on God’s earth if I could find out what it is.”
“She wants what you can’t give her, I think.”
A glimmer of proprietary jealousy came into Dick’s eyes. “How in hell do you know so much about it?”
“Now, look here, Dick; you began this conversation, you know——”