"
Katherine closed her eyes, rocked gently back and forth, and crooned,
almost inaudibly:
"'When you gang awa, Jimmie,
Faur across the sea, laddie,
When ye gang to Russian lands
What will ye send to me, laddie?'
I know what I shall get. It will probably be a newly discovered recipe
for the compounding of cement which will do away with the necessity of
steel strengthening."
"Kate, dear, you are overdoing it. It is quite right that woman should
be a mystery to man, but she should not aspire to become a mystery to
her sister woman. Are you just making fun, or is there something in
all this more serious than your words imply?"
"Like the steel strengthening in the cement, it may be there, but you
can't see it, and you can't touch it, but it makes-- oh, such a
difference to the slab. Heigho, Dorothy, let us forsake these
hard-headed subjects, and turn to something human. What have your
lawyers been bothering you about? No trouble over the money, is
there?"
Dorothy shook her head.
"No. Of course, there are various matters they have to consult me
about, and get my consent to this project or the other."
"Read the letter. Perhaps my mathematical mind can be of assistance to
you."
Dorothy had concealed the letter, and did not now produce it.
"It is with reference to your assistance, and your continued
assistance, that I wish to speak to you. Let us follow the example of
the cement and the steel, and form a compact.
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