“I am not the one to decide.”
“You are; if I put the decision in your hands.”
“But I am only a girl.”
“That is why I ask you. Girls see clear. They do not love money, they are not ambitious.”
“I do not love money. I may be ambitious.”
“How are you ambitious?”
She flushed and would not reply.
“About your stories? Do you expect to write?”
“I expect to write. I cannot help it; it is in me and will come out. Nothing much, perhaps; only little things, but I love them.”
“I do not think medicine is ‘in me’ like that. I simply like a profession better than the routine and drudgery of business.”