"They are not your money-bags."

"They will be — if I prove successful."

"And how will you prove successful?"

"Why!" — said Rufus, — "what a question! —"

"I wish you would answer it nevertheless — not to me, but to yourself."

Whether Rufus did or not, the answer never came out. He paced the floor again; several times made ready to speak, and then checked himself.

"So you are entirely against me, —" he said at length.

"I am not against you, Will; — I am for you."

"You don't approve of my plan."

"No —I do not."