Now, Lutie should not be called upon to make restitution.

That is for you to do.

I fancy it will be a long time before you can amass thirty or forty thousand dollars, so I make you this offer: the day you are _good_ enough for Lutie to marry all over again, I will pay to mother for you the full amount that Lutie would owe her in violating the contract.

You will not receive a cent of it, you see.

But you understand how rotten it would be for you and Lutie to--" "I see, I see," cried he, striking his knee with his clenched hand.