"N—no, but I'm thrilled all the time with a sense of doing, living, being!"
"And the work?"
"Laid aside for a time. But when I get back to it, I shall come like a Greek, bearing gifts!"
"Does he know about your work?"
"No. I felt he might laugh at me. I offered to tell him all about myself, but he did not want to hear, so I let it go. I have thought since, that I should have made him listen."
"How did he happen to offer you this bargain?"
"I think I came upon him in a climax. You see, Mrs. Brendon wanted to marry him to that Miss Morton, with or without his consent. He has never said this, but I have gathered it. Then on the cruise, a sixteen-year-old girl became infatuated with him, and ran away to come north with him. I think he has had some complication with an artist girl since he came home. It really is hard on him, because he doesn't seem to do the courting."
"And you married him, knowing this?"
"I married him because of it."
"But don't you see the danger of that nature, unless it is held by love or passion?"