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But she did not.
"You're too poor," she said.
He sat back without speaking for a long minute.
"Money isn't everything," he said, finally, and with something gone from
his voice.
"I know," she said, looking off; "but it's a great deal if you happen to
want it more than anything else in the world."
"Then, if that's how you feel about it, Hester, next to wanting you, I
want it, too, more than anything else in the world."
"There's no future in bookkeeping."
"I know a fellow in Cincinnati who's a hundred-and-fifty-dollar man.
Hester? Dear?"
"A week?"
"Why, of course not, dear--a month!"
"Faugh!" she said, still looking off.
He felt out for her hand, at the touch of her reddening up again.
"Hester," he said, "you're the most beautiful, the most exciting, the
most maddening, the most--the most everything girl in the world!
You're not going to have an easy time of it, Hester, with your--your
environment and your dangerousness, if you don't settle down--quick,
with some strong fellow to take care of you.


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