These were, first of all, her refusal to alienate him from his family and his own world; second, her right to her own individuality and freedom to support herself without interference or unrequested assistance from him; third, absolute independence of him in material matters and the perfect liberty of managing her own little financial affairs without a hint of dependence on him either before or after the great change.
That she posed only in costume now did not satisfy him.

He did not wish her to pose at all; and they discussed various other theatres for her business activity.

But she very patiently explained to him that she found, in posing for interesting people, much of the intellectual pleasure that he and other men found in painting; that the life and the environment, and the people she met, made her happy; and that she could not expect to meet cultivated people in any other way.
"I _don't_ want to learn stenography and take dictation in a stuffy office, dear," she pleaded.

"I _don't_ want to sit all day in a library where people whisper about books.

I don't want to teach in a public school or read novels to invalids, or learn how to be a trained nurse and place thermometers in people's mouths.