"I say, you are not going alone.... We must think of your companion, as well as of yourself."
"Jane, you're hard on me."
"Am I?"
And the bargaining went on.
Finally they came to terms. She was to give him half her share, in exchange for absolute freedom. He would thus have four thousand five hundred pounds as initial impetus for his new career.
"Do you say done to that?"
"Yes," she replied coldly and firmly, "I say done."
He sat down, drew out a dirty handkerchief, and wiped his forehead. His argumentative efforts had made him warm; but he smiled contentedly. He considered that "in the circs." it was a jolly good bargain.
"Dick," and her voice suddenly softened. "Have you thought what I am to do? Fifteen hundred pounds isn't much for me—to start a new life with."
"You have money of your own.... I am certain that you have a tidy nest-egg still."