Hasn't he made a success of his syndicate ?" "He says so--yes." "Very well, then, it stands to reason that he'll succeed in this, too.
He wouldn't undertake it if he didn't know it would succeed; he must have capital." "It will take a great deal to get such a thing going; and even if he's got an Angel behind him--" She caught at the word--"An Angel ?" "It's what the theatrical people call a financial backer.

He dropped a hint of something of that kind." "Of course, he's got an Angel," said his wife, promptly adopting the word.

"And even if he hadn't, still, Basil, I should be willing to have you risk it.

The risk isn't so great, is it?
We shouldn't be ruined if it failed altogether.

With our stocks we have two thousand a year, anyway, and we could pinch through on that till you got into some other business afterward, especially if we'd saved something out of your salary while it lasted.