But when Trina had begun to talk of investments and interests and per cents, he was troubled and not a little disappointed.

The lump sum of five thousand dollars was one thing, a miserable little twenty or twenty-five a month was quite another; and then someone else had the money.
"But don't you see, Mac," explained Trina, "it's ours just the same.

We could get it back whenever we wanted it; and then it's the reasonable way to do.

We mustn't let it turn our heads, Mac, dear, like that man that spent all he won in buying more tickets.

How foolish we'd feel after we'd spent it all! We ought to go on just the same as before; as if we hadn't won.