In ways he was even greater than Ernest, than whom I have known none greater.
Even I found some relief in our change of living.

If nothing else, I was escaping from the organized ostracism that had been our increasing portion in the university town ever since the enmity of the nascent Oligarchy had been incurred.

And the change was to me likewise adventure, and the greatest of all, for it was love-adventure.

The change in our fortunes had hastened my marriage, and it was as a wife that I came to live in the four rooms on Pell Street, in the San Francisco slum.
And this out of all remains: I made Ernest happy.

I came into his stormy life, not as a new perturbing force, but as one that made toward peace and repose.