Rosamund has plenty of pluck.

I couldn't ask her to start life on a pound a week--about my average for the last two years; but with two or three hundred in hand, and a decent little house, like that of Mrs.Cross's, at a reasonable rent--well, we shall risk it.

I'm sick of waiting.

And it isn't fair to a girl--that's my view.

Two years now; an engagement that lasts more than two years isn't likely to come to much good.