"I am not tied by my heartstrings.

I am often thankful that I have no children, and I dearly love children.

Yet if I married I should not dare to have any." "That surely is bad doctrine," I cried.
"I know it is," he said sadly.

"But it is expedient doctrine.

I am a revolutionist, and it is a perilous vocation." I laughed incredulously.
"If I tried to enter your father's house at night to steal his dividends from the Sierra Mills, what would he do ?" "He sleeps with a revolver on the stand by the bed," I answered.