Husband the little money I shall be able to leave you and be prepared against adversity.

I may never return." "Wherefore not ?" cried Mrs.Stevens.

"Do you contemplate an elopement?
You were seen holding converse with Susan Colgate." Mrs.Stevens had, among other weaknesses, enough of the "green-eyed monster" to make herself miserable.

Susan Colgate was a pretty maiden at Jamestown, whose charms John Stevens had praised in his wife's presence.
He smiled at her interruption and, after assuring her that he had no intention of eloping, said: "The ship may sink; then you and these two little children will be unprovided for.

I beseech you, husband the little I leave." "Have no fears, I shall care for them in some way; but I am not going to forego anything in anticipation of disaster.