To make Marion happy he believed that he would need to have about a million dollars to spend.

To make him happy, Marion would need to take a little more interest in home making and not so much interest in beauty making.

The frivolous vanity bag of hers, and her bland way of using it, like the movie actresses, in public, served to check his imagination before it actually began building air-castles wherein she reigned the queen.
He could have loved her so faithfully if only she were a little different! The nearest he came to building an air-castle was when he was lying luxuriously in a shallow part of the pool, where the water was not so cold.
"She'd be different, I believe--I'd make her different if I could just have her to myself," he mused.

"I'd take a lot of that foolishness out of her in a little while, and I wouldn't have to be rough with her, either.

All she needs is a man she can't bluff!".