There's some risk of her despising me if I did go." "You may be right; I can't judge," Dalton thoughtfully agreed.

"Now I could, of course, find an excuse for getting you dismissed, but I know you both too well to imagine that plan would work.

You would go somewhere else, while though Helen is generous there's a hard streak in her.

I really think she'd like you better afterwards if you carried your intentions out." He paused and smiled.

"She got the money you object to in a very curious way--by refusing to indulge the wishes of our only rich relation.