Jeffray looked up with a frown.
“No, not that, Dick. I am preparing for what I hold to be my duty.”
“Well, sir, well?”
“I am going to save this woman from the past, and act with honor for her, even though our love may come to nothing.”
Wilson sat up and looked hard at Jeffray, profoundly interested in the problem-play before him.
“You can trust me, sir; what do you mean to do?”
“Make her a new life, Dick.”
“Yes.”
“Money is nothing to me. I can give her all of it she needs in this world, a home, and safety from all sordid care and dread.”
“Well, what then?”