46/144 She was a typewriter, wasn't she ?" "Something of that sort." "Well!" Ellen took him up triumphantly, "you wouldn't have wanted to be married to a typewriter _now!"_ "I never really thought of marrying one, Ellen. I'm sure everything has turned out for the best." "That's what I'm trying to tell you. You see I was determined it should turn out that way. I said, what was the use of being lame and being a burden to you unless there was something _meant_ by it. I'd have fretted dreadfully if I hadn't felt that there was something to come out of it. |