The fact is, he's always either making or losing, and now he's losing.

That's why they wanted me to put off our marriage." "They wanted you to put it off ?" "Mother did--the old man never interferes.

She had got into her head, you see, that the only way for me to make a living was to marry one, so it was a little while before she could get used to the idea that I was going to marry because I wanted to, not because my family wanted me to.
She was a brick though when she found out I was in earnest.

Mother is true blue when you know how to take her." "But you never told me." "You bet I didn't.

If I had, as likely as not, you would be Gabriella Mary Carr at this minute." Drawing gently out of his grasp, which had grown possessive, she stood looking at him with a smile in which tenderness and irony mingled; and the tenderness was her own, while the irony seemed to belong to the vision of an impersonal spectator of life.