I love her as much as a man of experience can love a woman in advance of trying her out thoroughly.

If she had money I'd not be hesitating, I'm afraid.

Then, too, I don't think the moral tone of that set she and I travel with is what it ought to be.

It's all very well for me, but--Well, a man ought to be ready for almost anything that might happen if his wife went with that crowd--or had gone with it before he married her.

Not that I suspect Margaret, though I must say--What a pup this sort of life does make of a man in some ways!...