She smiled a little in answering.

'He has often fallen in love with women without a penny, but he could hardly marry a woman who hadn't one.' 'He wouldn't wish to marry Althea, then, if she had no money ?' 'However much he would wish it, I don't think he would be so foolish as to do it,' said Helen.
'Can't a man worth his salt work for the woman he loves ?' 'A man well worth his salt may not be trained for making money,' Helen returned.

She knew the question clamouring in his heart, the question he must not ask, nor she answer: 'Is he in love with Althea ?' Mr.Kane could never accept nor understand what the qualified answer to such a question would have to be, and she must leave him with his worst perplexity unsolved.

But one thing she could do for him, and she hoped that it might soften a little the bitterness of his uncertainty.

The sunlight suddenly had failed, and a slight wind passed among the boughs overhead.