One can't be sure that it would repay them, though--Now, in my own case, if I could get hold of a few thousand pounds I should know how to use it with the certainty of return; it would save me, probably, a clear ten years of life; I mean, I should go at a jump to what I shall be ten years hence without the help of money.
But they have such a miserable little bit of capital, and everything is still so uncertain.

One daren't speculate under the circumstances.' Marian made no reply.
'You think I talk of nothing but money ?' Jasper said suddenly, looking down into her face.
'I know too well what it means to be without money.' 'Yes, but--you do just a little despise me ?' 'Indeed, I don't, Mr Milvain.' 'If that is sincere, I'm very glad.

I take it in a friendly sense.

I am rather despicable, you know; it's part of my business to be so.

But a friend needn't regard that.