“I would wait for you.”

“Or to be engaged.”

“But the day must come, sooner or later, when you must be both engaged and married. You must ask yourself sometime if you love the man who wishes to be your husband. Why not ask yourself now?”

“I do,” she answered. “I do ask myself. I have asked myself.”

“Well, what do you decide?”

“That I don’t know.”

“Don’t you think you would love me in time? Laura, I am sure you would. I would make you.”