"A fur lining is too hot if there happens to be a thaw, and then you would leave it off and take cold.

You have all the look," she added, with a gravely considering glance at him, "of a person who ought to take care of his chest." He withdrew his eyes hurriedly, and fixed them instead on his pipe.

He always brought it with him, by her order, and Advena usually sewed.

He thought as he watched her that it made the silences enjoyable.
"And expensive, I dare say, too," he said.
"Yes, more or less.

Alec paid fifty dollars for his, and never liked it." "Fifty dollars--ten pounds! No vair for me!" he declared.