"Make it absolutely plain." "I will.

My proposition is, in its truest and strictest sense, a marriage of convenience.

Marriage, it appears, can give us both what we want, a formal ceremony will legalize your position as my secretary and free you entirely from the interference of your father.

It will permit you to accept freely my protection and everything else which I have.
Your way will be open to the things you spoke of the other night, freedom, leisure, money, travel, books.

The only thing we are shutting out is the thing you say you have no use for--love.