"It is always so.

Science is always economical as well as enlightened and humane," Dory was thinking when Adelaide's voice broke into his reverie.
"You are right, Dory," said she.

"And I shall give up the house.

I'll go to see Mrs.Dorsey now." "The house ?--What--Oh, yes--well--no--What made you change ?" She did not know the real reason--that, studying his face, the curve and set of his head, the strength of the personality which she was too apt to take for granted most of the time because he was simple and free from pretense, she had been reminded that he was not a man to be trifled with, that she would better bestir herself and give more thought and attention to what was going on in that superbly shaped head of his--about her, about her and him.

"Oh, I don't just know," replied she, quite honestly.
"It seems to me now that there'll be too much fuss and care and--sham.
And I intend to interest myself in _your_ work.