I have an income besides my salary.

I can take care of you.

They can trust you to me." Annie looked at him with a quick flush of resentment.

"As if I would even think of such a thing as that!" "What then ?" "You will laugh, but grandmother is very old, although she sits up so straight, and she depends on me, and--" "And what ?" "If I married you, I could not, of course, play pinocle with grandmother on Sunday." "Oh, yes, you could.

I most certainly should not object." "Then that makes it hopeless." Von Rosen looked at her in perplexity.