"I guessed too."
"Of course you did. I—I gave myself away. I pleaded with you."
He raised her hand slowly to his lips.
"I forgot you all the time I wur wud Rose," he remarked naively.
"You needn't tell me that."
"But now I—well, it's too late anyhow. I'm a married man, no matter that my wife's in Canada. Of course, I could git a divorce—but I wöan't."
"No—it would cost money."
"More than I could spare."
Alice laughed.