"No. I think it hampers people."
"How?"
"Things collect and get to be important. Possessions smother you. Oh! no, I should hate to be rich."
"Jane, I sometimes feel as if I had married a female Bernard Shaw!"
Again she laughed, and he noticed it was a pleasant sound.
CHAPTER XIV
The day of Mrs. Brendon's first sitting began a new era for Jane. As soon as the studio was in order, on the morning she was expected, Jane appeared in hat and coat, ready for the street.
"Aren't you going to stay to receive Mrs. Brendon?" Jerry asked, faintly aggrieved.
"Why, no. It is scarcely necessary, is it? I have some other things to do."