No one but a rich man could have given a ring like that.

And on your finger it means but one thing." "I am to be married in June." "Do you love him ?" "I respect him; he is noble and good and kind." Warrington did not press the question.

He still retained the hand, though he no longer gazed at the ring.
"I have always wanted a home.

The stage never really fascinated me; it was bread and butter." "Is it necessary to marry in order to have a home ?" he asked quietly, letting the hand gently slide from his.

"You are wealthy, after a fashion; could you not build a home of your own ?" "Always to be identified as the actress?
To be looked at curiously, to be annoyed by those who are not my equals, and only tolerated by those who are?
No! I want a man who will protect me from all these things, who will help me to forget some needless follies and the memory that a hundred different men have made play-love to me on the other side of the footlights." "Some men marry actresses to gratify their vanity; does this man love you ?" "Yes; and he will make me what Heaven intended I should be--a woman.
Oh, I have uttered no deceit.