"But it's true," she said.
"Doris!" he said.
She nodded vehemently, keeping her eyes on his.

"It's true," she said again.
He straightened himself up with the instinctive movement of a man bracing himself to meet a sudden strain.

"But why?
How?
I didn't even know you knew the man." She nodded again.

"He helped me once when I was out cubbing, and I went to his house.

After that--when he heard that I had nothing to live on--he came and asked me if I would marry him.