I feel she may go on for years." Roger was silent a moment, chagrined and disappointed.
"Have you had a good chance to watch her ?" he asked.
"Yes, and I'm watching her still," said Baird.

"I see her down there at the school.

She tells me you've been there yourself." "Yes," said Roger, determinedly, "and I mean to keep on going.

I'm trying not to lose hold of her," he added with harsh emphasis.

Baird turned and frankly smiled at him.
"Then you have probably seen," he replied, "that to keep any hold at all on her, you must make up your mind as I have done that, strength or no strength, this job of hers is going to be a life career.