“As I said before, she understands me and I understand her. Some things don’t require language to express. They come by intuition.”
And still Roberts waited.
“If it were you, now, and there were any possibility of a yardstick it would be different; but as it is—”
“Miss Gleason then, Mrs. Armstrong to be, doesn’t care in the least to see you come on financially, is completely satisfied with things as they are?”
It was Armstrong’s turn to be silent.
“You’ve been engaged now three years. You’re thirty years old and Miss Gleason is—” 23
“Twenty-five in August.”
“She is wholly contented to let the engagement run on indefinitely, knowing that your income is barely enough for one to live on and not at all adequate for two?”
The other stiffened involuntarily; but he said nothing.
“I beg your pardon the second time, Armstrong, if you wish; but remember, please, I’m doing this by request.”