I've thought it out.

Now, listen." "Oh, I'm willing to listen," he consented, airily.
"You've always wanted to get out of the insurance business, and now with that fear of being turned out which you have you mustn't neglect this offer.

I suppose it has its risks, but it's a risk keeping on as we are; and perhaps you will make a great success of it.

I do want you to try, Basil.

If I could once feel that you had fairly seen what you could do in literature, I should die happy." "Not immediately after, I hope," he suggested, taking the second cup of coffee she had been pouring out for him.