"Studying law."
"Stop."
"What for?"
"To talk to me."
"It seems to me I have been doing that for some time," said
Winthrop, without looking off his book.
"But I haven't begun. Winthrop, — I have a great mind to give up this engineering business."
"To do what instead?"
"Why — you know I shall have some money coming to me — quite a little sum; — Mr. Haye has very kindly offered to put me in the way of laying it out to good advantage, and eventually of getting into another line of occupation which would at the same time be more lucrative, less laborious, and would keep me in the regions of civilization. — And perhaps — Winthrop — something might follow thereupon, —"
"What?" said his brother looking up.
"Something —"