Chapter 105

“Oh, no, my dear. Besides—I’ll tell you how I came to understand. Gil had to go to one of the leading oculists, and when the doctor found out that we were rather poor he would not take any fees from me. He was an old man. And I was rather young, and uncomfortable, and I tried to persuade him to let me pay. I remember a look—almost of pain and of appeal on his face. He said: ‘Young lady, I am an old man. May I not be allowed to do something for the love of the thing? What is money to me?’ ” “Yes, that’s rather fine.…