"My dear, how strange you women really are! After all these years of study I should have thought that you would, at least, have partially comprehended me.

I see that is not to be.

But try to understand that I divide with a nice distinction the affairs of sentiment and the affairs of business.

There is only one element in my world of sentiment--that is you.

Therefore, ask what you want and take it for yourself; but for Caroline, that is an entirely different matter.
No, Ruth, you may take what you will for yourself, but for her, for any other living soul, not a penny, not a cent will I give.