"A very great deal. To be good must of all qualities be the best. She is very beautiful."
"I think so, sir. Of course she has no money."
"It is not needed. It is not needed. I have no objection to make. If you are sure of your own mind—"
"I am quite sure of that, sir."
"Then I will raise no objection. Lady Mabel Grex! Her father, I fear, is not a worthy man. I hear that he is a gambler."
"He is so poor!"
"That makes it worse, Silverbridge. A man who gambles because he has money that he can afford to lose is, to my thinking, a fool. But he who gambles because he has none, is—well, let us hope the best of him. You may give her my love."
"She has not accepted me."
"But should she do so, you may."
"She almost rejected me. But I am not sure that she was in earnest, and I mean to try again." Just at that moment the door was opened and Major Tifto walked into the room.