"I shouldn't be worse off as your wife than I am now."
"Oh, wouldn't you? You would; don't you make any error! I've never said a word to you about marriage."
"That's true, nor should I have said it to you if it hadn't been for this."
"There you are--that's frank. There's been no deception on either side. After all that there's been between us don't let's have any unpleasantness, for both our sakes. I'm as sorry for the position to which we've managed to bring things as you can be; you must know I am. At present I'm stony, but shortly I hope to have the command of plenty of money."
"Are you going to get it from Miss Patterson or Miss Austin?"
"What does it matter where it comes from?"
"So far as I'm concerned it matters a good deal."
"It'll be my own money."
class="normal""If you'll have so much money of your own why can't you marry me?"
"If I do marry you I'll have no money?"