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The motto of live and let live prevailed. And Marion refused
to run away with him and marry him, or to let him go to his father.
In his office all day long there was Anna, so yielding, so surely
his to take if he wished. Already he knew that things there must
either end or go forward. Human emotions do not stand still; they
either advance or go back, and every impulse of his virile young body
was urging him on.
He made at last an almost frenzied appeal to Marion to marry him at
once, but she refused flatly.
"I'm not going to ruin you," she said. "If you can't bring your
people round, we'll just have to wait."
"They'd be all right, once it is done."
"Not if I know your father! Oh, he'd be all right - in ten years
or so. But what about the next two or three? We'd have to live,
wouldn't we?"
He lay awake most of the night thinking things over. Did she really
care for him, as Anna cared, for instance? She was always talking
about their having to live. If they couldn't manage on his salary
for a while, then it was because Marion did not care enough to try.


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