But, truly--" "No more," said she, and in her voice sounded a command he knew, at last, was quite inexorable.

"I'm not like other women of our set, perhaps.

I can't be bought and sold, Wally, with money and position.

I can't marry a man, and have to live with him, if he shows himself petty, or small, or narrow in any way.

I must be free, free as air, as long as I live.