His had ever been the game of chance.

Business--business?
"He doesn't talk himself, of course; that wouldn't be like him,"-- Kitty had joy in giving this wife the character of her husband, "but they say that if he succeeds in what he's trying to do now he will make a great deal of money." "Then he has not made it yet ?" asked Mrs.Crozier.
"He has always been able to pay his board regularly, with enough left for a pew in church," answered Kitty with dry malice; for she mistook the light in the other's eyes, and thought it was avarice; and the love of money had no place in Kitty's make-up.

She herself would never have been influenced by money where a man was concerned.
"Here's the house," she quickly added; "our home, where Mr.Crozier lives.

He has the best room, so yours won't be quite so good.

It's mother's--she's giving it up to you.