"But how can you?"
"Different ways."
"Can you do everything you want to, Basil?" his wife asked, with an incredulous sort of admiration.
"I'll do everything you want me to do."
"You have already,—and more," she said with a sigh.
"How will your helpmeet in the other room answer the purpose?"
"I have never been used to have anybody, you know, Basil; and I do not need any one. I can do all easily myself."
"I know you can. I do not wish you should."
"Then what will you give me to do?"
"Plenty."