I am quite sure that I shall succeed, if not at once, very soon.

There is plenty of money to be made in the world if one perseveres." She had the air of trying to take him seriously.
"You sound quite convincing," she admitted, "but I do wish that you would put all these thoughts out of your mind, Leonard.

It doesn't sound like you in the least.

Remember what you told me that first night; you assured me that women had not the slightest part in your life." "I have changed," he confessed.

"I did not expect anything of the sort to happen, but it has.