'I hold the money, to be used for the very best ends and interests I know. If when the time comes, I see any way that I can spend the money better, I'll not go.'
'But it would be spending the money on yourselfyourself and your wifeif you went, at any rate,' persisted Mrs. Coles. 'And you say, it is not yours.'
'Mine to spend.'
'On what you please.'
'No; in such ways as will best do the work the Owner of the money wants done.'
'And what has your travelling to do with that? I don't see.'
'If I don't see, as I said, I'll not go.'
'But how could it, you contradictory man?'
'Human nature often needs relaxation and recreation,' said Dane.
'Mine might.'
'Relaxation!' said Mrs. Coles. 'When you know as well as I do, that you are a pine knot for endurance, and a very burr for persistence.'