Their reasoning was delightfully simple and they were wholly unaware that it might have been called gross.

A man over his head and ears in debt naturally expected his creditors would be paid by the young woman who had married him.

America had in these days been so little explored by the thrifty impecunious well-born that its ingenuous sentimentality in certain matters was by no means comprehended.
By each post Sir Nigel received numerous bills.

Sometimes letters accompanied them, and once or twice respectful but firm male persons brought them by hand and demanded interviews which irritated Sir Nigel extremely.

Given time to arrange matters with Rosalie, to train her to some sense of her duty, he believed that the "acct.