You didn't know it would amount to so much, did you ?" "Pshaw, I'll not touch it!" he exclaimed, drawing back from the money as though it was red-hot.
"Yes, you will," she told him.

"I've been saving it up for you, Condy, every penny of it, from the first day we played down there at the lake; and I always told myself that the moment you made up your mind to quit playing, I would give it back to you." "Why, the very idea!" he vociferated, his hands deep in his pockets, his face scarlet.

"It's--it's preposterous, Blix! I won't let you TALK about it even--I won't touch a nickel of that money.

But, Blix, you're--you're--the finest woman I ever knew.

You're a man's woman, that's what you are." He set his teeth.