An average like that would be ruinous.
"Why, think of it," he continued.

"For each day sacrificed to Barbara I must deduct something like twenty-five hundred dollars.

A long campaign would put me irretrievably in the hole; I'd get so far behind that a holocaust couldn't put me even.

She can't expect that of me, yet girls are such idiots about devotion, and of course she doesn't know what a heavy task I'm facing.

And there are the others--what will they do while I am out of the running?
I cannot go to her and say, 'Please, may I have a year's vacation?
I'll come back next September.' On the other hand, I shall surely neglect my business if she expects me to compete.
What pleasure shall I get out of the seven millions if I lose her?
I can't afford to take chances.