The moment in which I swore fealty to her was when she said to me, 'I want to be quite safe--until after.

I do not care for myself.

I will bear anything or do anything.

Only one thing matters.

I shall be such a good patient.' Then her eyes grew moist, and she closed her lips decorously to keep them from trembling.
"They're not usually like that," Mrs.Warren remarked.
"I have not found them so," he replied.
"Perhaps she believes the man will marry her." There was odd unexpectedness in the manner in which Dr.Warren suddenly began to laugh.
"My dear wife, if you could see her! It is the incongruity of what we are saying which makes me laugh.