You and the children are secure anyhow, that's one comfort.

But oh, my poor people at Enderley!" Again Ursula asked if nothing could be done.
"Yes--I did think of one plan--but--" "John, I know what you thought of." She laid her hand on his arm, and looked straight up at him--eye to eye.

Often, it seemed that from long habit they could read one another's minds in this way, clearly as a book.

At last John said: "Would it be too hard a sacrifice, love ?" "How can you talk so! We could do it easily, by living in a plainer way; by giving up one or two trifles.

Only outside things, you know.
Why need we care for outside things ?" "Why, indeed ?" he said, in a low, fond tone.
So I easily found out how they meant to settle the difficulty; namely, by setting aside a portion of the annual income which John, in his almost morbid anxiety lest his family should take harm by any possible non-success in his business, had settled upon his wife.