"0h, well," she let him say, "I don't feel that I did much; and I'm notsure I'm glad for what I did do."

"You may regret it, of course. That other man is an uncertain quantity."

"0h, come," he exclaimed; "you've had the inside track from the somewhat start: thishouse and everything in it...."

"You have a home of your own, now."

"Your dinners and entertainments...."

"You have your own dinner-table."

"Your limousine, your chauffeur,--running to the opera and heaven knowswhere else...."

"Taxis can always be had. Yes," she went on, "you have held the advantageover a poor woman cooped up inside her own house. While I have had to stickhere, attending to my housekeeping, you have been careering abouteverywhere,--you with a lot of partners and clerks in your office, and nocompulsion to look in more than two or three times a month. 0f _course_you can run to theatres and clubs. I wonder they don't dispense with youaltogether!"

"There's the advantage of a business arranged to run itself--so far as_I_ am concerned."

"Yes, you have had the world to range through: shows and restaurants; thewhole gigantic city; strolls and excursions, and whom knows what beside...."