"I suppose he does attend to his work?"
"Oh, so-so; but a little break like that doesn't help a man any. He struck high, didn't he?"
"Yes."
"Wonder what he's got to keep her on. Great question—all that; ain't it? She's a rich girl, I hear. Subject for debate: is it safer to marry a rich girl or a poor girl—for a young man in moderate circumstances, I mean?"
"Oh, dear," said Ogden, sitting down on the edge of the bed, helplessly; "if you're going back to that chestnut!"
"Well, it's timely," rejoined Brower, knocking the ashes of his pipe into the cover of the soap-dish; "and always will be. Pro: if the girl's rich, she'll have had things, and got used to them, and perhaps tired of them. If the girl's poor, she'll be ravenous after her long starve-out, and will expect her husband to feed her with everything."
"Lay on."
"Con: if the girl's rich, she'll expect all the comforts and luxuries she has been used to at home. If she's poor, she'll have had some sense ground into her; she'll know how to manage and contrive. So there it is. What's your idea?" "No general rule. Depends on circumstances." "What does?"
"The girl. To begin with."
"The girl depends on circumstances. And after?"