"Why for his sake?"
Winifred smiled. "I'd like to see him marry little Anne."
"The school-teacher?"
"Yes. Oh, I am broken-hearted to think he's spoiling Nancy's dreams for him. There was something so idyllic in them. And now he'll marry Eve."
"You say that as if it were a tragedy."
"It is, for him and for her. Eve was never made to be poor."
"Don't tell her that. She took my head off. Said she'd rather have a crust of bread with Richard——"
"Oh, oh!"
"Than a palace with me."
"Poor Pip. It wasn't nice of her."