Why should you have said that thing just now ?' 'You're quite right.

It was needless.' 'A few weeks ago I didn't expect you to be cheerful.

Things began to look about as bad as they could.

But now that you've got a volume finished, there's hope once more.' Hope?
Of what quality?
Reardon durst not say what rose in his thoughts.
'A very small, poor hope.

Hope of money enough to struggle through another half year, if indeed enough for that.' He had learnt that Amy was not to be told the whole truth about anything as he himself saw it.
It was a pity.