I don't mean I want you to loaf, you know," she had gone on more earnestly.

"I want you to work and do, oh, so much, all the things you dreamed of doing--over there in Paris.

But I'm not going to have you make your business a mere rush for a lot of money we don't need!" She had gone to him suddenly.

"And just now I want you so." By these talks she had already worked a change.

No more hasty breakfasts to let him be off by eight o'clock.