"We've always worked so hard and been so scrimped: and now that we are rich, it does seem--" He did not finish, for he saw her eye soften; his supplication had touched her.

She said, with gentle persuasiveness: "We must not spend the capital, dear, it would not be wise.

Out of the income from it--" "That will answer, that will answer, Aleck! How dear and good you are! There will be a noble income and if we can spend that--" "Not ALL of it, dear, not all of it, but you can spend a part of it.
That is, a reasonable part.

But the whole of the capital--every penny of it--must be put right to work, and kept at it.

You see the reasonableness of that, don't you ?" "Why, ye-s.