“I have taken heavily from you,” he said slowly, “long, long, racking hours, and you’ve never complained. You have given me so much and I have had no right.”
She smiled.
“Those were the happiest moments.”
“And after all that,” he said, “you still want to go on—giving to me?”
Her hands came together eagerly as she raised her eyes in supplication.
“Please—oh, you wouldn’t take this from me now!”
“You don’t know, child; you don’t know what you are undertaking,” he said bitterly.
“I want it!”
“And you do all this because——”
“I believe in you.”