Her ideas are not higher than her own fortune may warrant, but they are beyond what our incomes united could authorise.

There is comfort, however, even here.

I could better bear to lose her because not rich enough, than because of my profession.

That would only prove her affection not equal to sacrifices, which, in fact, I am scarcely justified in asking; and, if I am refused, that, I think, will be the honest motive.

Her prejudices, I trust, are not so strong as they were.