I want to ease the way for you; I mean that you mustn't go back to teaching this fall!" "There, you see"-- and he knew she smiled in her patient, sweet way that was dear to him--"you want to stop my work before it's begun! You see how impossible it would be, Dan!" "But you can do other things; there are infinite ways in which you can be of use, doing the things you want to do.

The school work is only a handicap,--drudgery that leads to nothing." He knew instantly that he had erred; and that he must give her no opportunity to defend her attitude toward her work.

He returned quickly to his great longing and need.
"Without you I'm a failure, Sylvia.

If it hadn't been for you I should never have freed myself of that man over there!" And he lifted his arm toward the lights of the Bassett landing on the nearer shore.
"No; you would have saved yourself in any case; there's no questioning that.

You were bound to do it.