"I think it was from the first—"
"In the Toy Shop?"
"Yes."
"And you thought I was poor—and I thought you were just the girl in the shop?"
"Isn't it wonderful?"
It was more wonderful than they knew.
"Do you know that my money has always been more important to some people than I have been? I have thought they cared for me because of it."
"Ralph said last night that I cared—for the money."
She would not tell him of the other things that Ralph had said. And even as she thought of him, across the path of her rapture fell the shadow of Ralph's scorn of Derry.
He bent down to her. "Jean, if I had been that shabby boy that you first saw in the shop would you have been happy with me, in a plain little house? Would you?"