Once married you must live up to the standard of the society you frequent; you can't be entertained without entertaining in return.

Now if his wife had brought him only a couple of thousand pounds all might have been well.

I should have advised him, in sober seriousness, to live for two years at the rate of a thousand a year.

At the end of that time he would have been earning enough to continue at pretty much the same rate of expenditure.' 'Perhaps.' 'Well, I ought rather to say that the average man of letters would be able to do that.

As for Reardon--' He stopped.