His father says he couldn't possibly do it on the allowance he gives him, and, you know, George doesn't make a cent himself--not a cent.

He never supported himself in his life--" She paused breathlessly, with a bright and confident glance as if she had made a point--a minor one perhaps, but still a point--in George's favour.

The jet fringe on her bosom, which had rattled furiously with her excited palpitations, became gradually quiet, and as she pressed her lips firmly with her handkerchief, which she had rolled into a ball, she appeared to be pressing her customary smile back into place.
"It won't last, Gabriella," she began again very suddenly with renewed assurance.

"These things never last, and I think Patty is quite wrong to insist upon telling you.

Of course it is humiliating for a time, but--but"-- she hesitated, and then brought out triumphantly--"he married very young, you know, and men aren't like women--there's no use pretending they are.