"You miss my point. I admit your liberality, and appreciate it, but slaves and servants are dependent upon liberality. It does something to your mind, you must see that."
"I'm hanged if I do."
"You must take my word for it, then, that no marriage can be built on such a basis."
"But I don't agree with you."
"Very well, then, I must take up my work in the studios again."
"What?"
"I must be independent, I must know where I stand."
"You mean to say that you would go about cleaning up studios? My wife cleaning up studios, to pander to this whim?" angrily.
"It isn't a whim, it's a principle. No kind of work can hurt my self-respect, but I want to be regarded as a partner, Jerry. If it is what you used to pay me, by the week, for keeping the studio clean, and your clothes mended, that is enough. But I must know how much it is, and when I get it."
"This is degrading, that's what it is! You don't trust me, that's the long and short of it."