I shouldn't even ask for interest on it--that would be the only compensation I could offer for deserting the firm.
"Perhaps I had better buy a cattle ranch.

Then, if we fail, I shall at least have had the training of a cowboy and can hire out." Helene laughed and clapped her hands.
"Fail?
You?
But I should help you to make it a success--I should be really necessary ?" "Indispensable.

Either you or another partner." "No! No! I shall be the partner--" "And you mean that you would be willing to bury your youth, your beauty, on a ranch?
I have heard bitter confidences out here from women forced to waste their youth on a ranch.

You are one of the fine flowers of civilization--" "That soon wither in the hothouse atmosphere.

I wish to become a hardy annual.