"With what I'm doing now ?" "You're promising me now what I want.

Aren't you promising me," he pressed, getting up, "aren't you promising me to abide by what Maggie says ?" Oh, she wanted to be sure she was.

"Do you mean she'll ASK it of me ?" It gave him indeed, as by communication, a sense of the propriety of being himself certain.

Yet what was he but certain?
"She'll speak to you.

She'll speak to you FOR me." This at last then seemed to satisfy her.