“I suppose you have often disapproved of things I have done?”
“Sometimes I have.”
“Tell me, if—if things had been different, and you and I had come together, what would you have done if you had disapproved of my conduct?”
“What is the good of entering upon that?”
“Yes; do tell me! I want to know.”
“I hope I should find the way to hold a woman who was mine,” he said, with a sort of decisive calmness, but with a great temperateness.
“But if you married an ungovernable creature?”
“I doubt if anybody is absolutely ungovernable. In the army I have had to deal with some stiff propositions; but there is always a way.”
“Is there? But in the army you deal with men. And we are so utterly different.”
“I think I should have found the way.”