You know I have three hundred pounds a year of my own; which is quite enough, with my pay, to enable us to get on comfortably.

Still, I won't say that, if she has as much more, we could not do things better." Lisle laughed.
"I thought you were not a marrying man, Hallett! In fact, you have more than once told me so." "Well, I didn't think I was," Hallett admitted, "but you see, circumstances alter cases." "They do, Hallett, and your case seems to be a bad one.

However, old man, I wish you luck.

She is an exceedingly nice girl and, if I were ten years older, I might have been smitten myself; and then, you know, your chance would have been nowhere." "I quite feel that," Hallett said; "a V.C.is a thing no girl can stand against.
"If you will take me, I will go down with you and stay a little time, and then try my luck." "That you certainly shall do.

I can hardly do anything in the way of festivities, at present; but there is no reason why you should not enter into anything that is going on." So they went down together.