"But you didn't mean that you didn't want to do anything at all, did you? That wasn't your attitude, was it?"
"Oh, no, sir. That wasn't it. I told her right away if she would go away for a while—while she had her baby—and let me stay on there in Lycurgus, that I would try to live on less and give her all I could save until she was all right again."
"But not marry her?"
"No, sir, I didn't feel that I could do that then."
"And what did she say to that?"
"She wouldn't do it. She said she couldn't and wouldn't go through with it unless I would marry her."
"I see. Then and there?"
"Well, yes—pretty soon, anyhow. She was willing to wait a little while, but she wouldn't go away unless I would marry her."
"And did you tell her that you didn't care for her any more?"
"Well, nearly—yes, sir."