"Exactly!" said Mrs. Waddington. "And consequently can never hope to make money."
Hamilton Beamish's eyes lit up behind their spectacles.
"Is that your chief objection?" he asked.
"Is what my chief objection?"
"That George has no money?"
"But...." began George.
"Shut up!" said Hamilton Beamish. "I ask you, Mrs. Waddington, would you give your consent to this marriage if my friend George Finch were a wealthy man?"
"It is a waste of time to discuss such...."
"Would you?"
"Possibly I would."