I'd hoped to give you a change this winter--take you to Montreal and go skating and tobogganing, but that's done with.

I believe I have money enough to begin again in a small way and work up.

It may take me two or three years to get back to where I was, but somehow I will get back." "Then you are going on as before; concentrating all your mind upon the farm, taking no rest, denying yourself every pleasure you might have had ?" "I'm afraid that's the only way.

It's a pretty grim outlook, but I think I can stand the strain." "Then I suppose I must try," said Helen, very quietly.
She was silent afterwards, and Festing lit his pipe.

Something stood between them, and she felt that it was not less dangerous because their motives were good.