We can enjoy ourselves now.

Other troubles will spring up, no doubt, before long." She did not quite like being told that her father had "answered to the whip,"-- but she was willing to believe that it was a phrase common among men to which it would be prudish to make objection.
There was, also, something in her husband's elation which was distasteful to her.

Could it be that reverses of fortune with reference to moderate sums of money, such as this which was now coming into his hands, would always affect him in the same way?
Was it not almost unmanly, or at any rate was it not undignified?
And yet she tried to make the best of it, and lent herself to his holiday mood as well as she was able.

"Shall I write and thank papa ?" she said that evening.
"I have been thinking of that," he said.

"You can write if you like, and of course you will.