"Yes, I will. If anyone left me twenty thousand pounds to-morrow, then I should owe you something."
"What would you owe me?"
"Half of it."
"And how would you pay me?" He thought a while before he made his answer. He knew that in that case he would not wish to pay the debt in the only way in which it would be payable. "You mean then that you would—marry me?"
"I shouldn't be afraid of the hashed mutton and cradles."
"In that case you—would marry me?"
"A man has no right to take so much on himself as to say that."
"Psha!"
"I suppose I should. I should make a devilish bad husband even then."
"Why should you be worse than others?"