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 "What you need is change. Why not go away for awhile? Why not go abroad?"

"I can't. I must work."

"Take your work along."

"Will you go, too?"

"I? I can not. There's Priscilla—"

"Then I can't go. I can't work without you"—impatiently.

"You haven't tried."

"There's no use trying. I know. Your judgment, your taste—I must have them until I'm bigger, surer of myself."

"And then?",

He stopped as if she had interrupted a train of thought. "What?"

"Nothing—nothing."

"Do you think it's been worth your while?"

"Eminently."

"And what have you gotten out of it—except a little vicarious joy?"

"I'm essential to you in your work—you've just said it—that is my reward."

He drew a chair up beside her and took