"Nor do I love you the less, Jacqueline, because I can decide nothing for you, do nothing for you."
"Jim! You can decide everything for me—do everything! And you have done everything for me—by giving me my freedom to decide for myself!"
"I gave it to you, Jacqueline?"
"Did you think I would have taken it if you had refused it?"
"But you said your happiness depended on it."
"Which is why you gave it to me, isn't it?" she asked seriously.
He laughed. "You wonderful girl, to make me believe that any generosity of mine is responsible for your freedom!"
"But it is! Otherwise, I would have obeyed you and been disgraced in my own estimation."
"Do you mean that mine is to be the final decision always?"