re
he had seen the tears in her eyes--the first tears he had ever seen Jane
shed.

CHAPTER XXVII

A fairness of judgment was so essentially a part of Jane's equipment
that she forced herself to be Jerry for the next few days. She knew him
so well, she knew the way his mind worked, because she brought to bear
not only her experience in living with him, but her imagination, too.
She felt for his distress, even while she marvelled at it. She tucked
away for future use this revelation of the diametrically opposed methods
by which men and women attack problems. Had it been a more tangible
thing, Jerry would have faced it more sanguinely, but in this realm of
intellectual mazes and psychological reactions where she lived, poor
Jerry was lost. He groped about, perplexed, indignant.

Two days after her confession about the book, he took up the matter
again.

"Now that there is no more secret about your writing, can't you manage
to do it at home?" he said.

"The point is that I do it better away from home. There is no place here
where I can be safe from interruption. The telephone rings, Baby cries,
I cannot concentrate."

"I do my work here."

"Yes, I admire your concentration very much, and envy you it," she
said.

"I must say, it isn't always convenient for me to stay in all morning,
because somebody has to watch the kid."

"I'm sure that's true, because I so often want to go out for things in
the afternoon. As soon as we can afford it we must get a nurse for him,
so that we both will be freer."

"After all, the baby is your first duty."

"If your present arrangement is a canker in your mind, Jerry, we must
change it, of course. I have greatly appreciated your fair-mindedness
about it."

"If I paint in the afternoon, I often have things to attend to in the
morning."

"I've never known you to go out in the morning on business, Jerry."

"I have more to attend to than I used to."

"Very well, I will arrange it."

Jane spent an hour rearranging the household schedule, so that Anna
could replace Jerry in the morning. Baby slept nearly all the time she
was out, so it was just a matter of having some one within call, in case
he waked. Good-natured Anna agreed to the new scheme and the next day,
as Jane started off, she remarked to Jerry:

"There is no need of your staying in any more. Anna will look after
Jerry."

"Very well," he said coldly.

So far as Jane knew, he never went out on the urgent b