'Shall I tell you what I think it should be?' said Ellinor, a little defiantly.
'Do,' he responded, gloomily.
'I think it means a handsome house—not a cottage (love in that is all very well, but may be apt to fly out of the windows); fine furniture—beautiful pictures and dresses—lots of servants—a carriage——'
'Oh, stop, please! Since when have you found all these things necessary for existence? Dear Ellinor, people can be very happy together with less.'
'Quiet as our lives have been here, Robert, poor Mary and I have often had wrung hearts and harassed spirits to keep up an outward and an empty show.'
'What is enough for one, as mother often says, is enough for two.'
'Perhaps, and perhaps not,' said Ellinor, with a waggish expression.
Robert Wodrow did not reflect just then that erelong there might be more mouths than two to feed.
'And all these new views of our prospects and of life generally, have occurred to you because——'
'Because what?'