"Why shouldn't we--you and I--be partners? Miss Hughes--Dr Constance"--suddenly, as he went on she looked down--"don't you think that it is possible that we might work together? That an arrangement might be made which--would be agreeable to us both?"
"Of course--there is always a possibility."
"Don't you think that, in this instance, there's a probability?"
"There might be."
"Don't you feel that such an arrangement would be, from all possible points of view, a desirable one? I do; I feel it strongly."
"Do you?"
"Don't you?" She was silent; so he continued, "I'd give all I have in the world, all I hope to have, to hear you say that you'd like us to be partners."
She looked up at him.
"I'd like to have--you for a partner," she said.