'But you must just give some idea,' he said gently.

'For the fact is, any sum almost may be spent on such a building: five thousand, ten thousand, twenty thousand, fifty thousand, a hundred thousand.' 'I want it done well; so suppose we say a hundred thousand?
My father's solicitor--my solicitor now--says I may go to a hundred thousand without extravagance, if the expenditure is scattered over two or three years.' Somerset looked round for a pen.

With quickness of insight she knew what he wanted, and signified where one could be found.

He wrote down in large figures-- 100,000.
It was more than he had expected; and for a young man just beginning practice, the opportunity of playing with another person's money to that extent would afford an exceptionally handsome opening, not so much from the commission it represented, as from the attention that would be bestowed by the art-world on such an undertaking.
Paula had sunk into a reverie.

'I was intending to intrust the work to Mr.Havill, a local architect,' she said.