What if there should not be money enough to pay Jack?
"Me! Why, Miss Ruth!" "But suppose he was not able to--" she could not frame the rest of the sentence.
"You can't suppose anything that would make me leave him, or the work." This also came with an emphasis of positive certainty.

"I have never been so happy as I have been here.

I never knew what it was to be myself.

I never knew," he added in softened tones, "what it was to really live until I joined your father.

Only last night Uncle Peter and I were talking about it.