"I don't know what you mean."
"The adventure we were talking about. — The heiress."
"I can adventure nothing upon speculation," said Winthrop.
"Then you have not had a chance to carry out your favourite idea of obligation. Do you know, I never should have suspected you of having such an idea."
"Shews how much we go upon speculation even with our nearest friends," said Winthrop.
"And how speculation fails there as elsewhere. What a fool
Haye has made of himself!"
"In what?"
"Why, in this match."
"What has he done?"
"Done! why he has done it. Enough, I should think. I wish his folly stood alone."