All the youthfulness seemed to have left her face, but he did not appear to see that.
"How can you do so ?" "Well, I can work.

I suppose I must be good for something--a bountiful Providence must surely have seen to that.

The difficulty is to find out what it intends me for.

We are not called in the night nowadays to a special mission--we have to find it out for ourselves." "Do you know what I should like you to be ?" she said, with a bright smile and one of those sudden descents into shallowness which he appeared to like.
"What ?" "A politician." "Then I shall be a politician," he answered, with loverlike promptness.
"That would be very nice," she said; and the castles she at once began to build were not entirely aerial in their structure.
This was not a new idea.

They had talked of politics before as a possible career for himself.