"Just by you?"
"Just by me," he replied.
"But when you stay away so long--"
It irritated him for me to refer to that. He said that there were
certain matters I wouldn't understand that had kept him in Richmond,
and that he had come as soon as he could. He added that he was
involved in some lawsuit, and that he was being watched, and had to
be "careful." I couldn't see why he should be watched because of a
lawsuit, and I asked:
"Would you be arrested?"
He threw back his head and laughed, and said I was a "queer little
thing," and then, after a while, he said very seriously:
"It's just as well, anyway. We mustn't get the habit of _needing_ each
other too much."