"I don't know about that. I do not see how she could. In a way, I owe her almost everything. Philip, you would never have married the woman I was three years ago."
"Don't take your oath upon that," he said lightly.
"But you would not, and you ought not."
"There is a counterpart to that. I am sure you would not have married the man I was three years ago."
At that Lois laid down her face again for a moment on his breast.
"I had a pretty hard quarter of an hour in a sleigh with you once!" she said.
Philip's answer was again wordless.
"But about Mrs. Barclay?" said Lois, recovering herself.
"Are you one of the few women who can keep to the point?" said he, laughing.
"What can we do for her?"