And I have amply enough not only to hold my own in my profession and win through, but to procure myself the pleasures and amusements I happen to fancy.

I want you to remember that, please.

Tell me is it quite clear to you ?" "Yes," Damaris said, "you have made it quite clear." Yet for the first time he jarred on her, as with a more than superficial difference of breeding and of class.

This mention of money offended her taste, seeming to lower the level upon which their extraordinary and--to her--terrible conversation had thus far moved.

It hurt her with another kind of hurting--not magnificent, not absorbing, but just common.