I might repay this money." "Yes, and you might not; such hopes and expectations have a way of coming to nothing.

Besides, hang it all, Morris, you know that there is more than money in the question." Morris hid his face in his hands for a moment; when he removed them it was ashen.

"Yes," he said, "things are unfortunate.

You remember that you were very anxious that I should engage myself, and Mary was so good as to accept me.

Perhaps, I cannot say, I should have done better to have waited till I felt some real impulse towards marriage.