If I get it, it would make my life a good deal more independent.

I should live in lodgings of my own, and have much more time to myself." Waymark encouraged the idea strongly.

But his companion could not be roused to the wonted cheerfulness.

After a long silence, he all at once put a strange question, and in an abashed way.
"Waymark, have you ever been in love ?" Osmond laughed, and looked at his friend curiously.
"Many thousand times," was his reply.
"No, but seriously," urged Julian.
"With desperate seriousness for two or three days at a time.

Never longer." "Well now, answer me in all earnestness.