28/31 Money-making, I admit, has never been much in my mind; all the same, I shall have money enough one of these days, and before very long. If it were necessary, I shouldn't mind entering into an obligation to furnish such and such a sum yearly by when I am thirty years old. It's a thing I never said to anyone, but I know perfectly well that a career--perhaps rather a brilliant one--is opening before me. I know it--just as one knows that one is in good health; it's an intimate sense, needing no support of argument." "Of course I'm glad to hear you speak like that," said the vicar, venturing only a glance at his son's face. |