I've played with you because I thought it would make a way for you to break off with the habit; and knowing as I did how fond you were of playing cards and how bad it was for you, how wicked it would have been for me to have played with you in any other spirit! Don't you see?
And as it has turned out, you've given up playing, and you've enough money to make it possible for you to write your novel.

The Centennial Company have asked you to try a story of adventure for them, you've found one that is splendid, you're just the man who could handle it, and now you've got the money to make it possible.

Condy," she exclaimed suddenly, "don't you see your CHANCE?
Aren't you a big enough man to see your chance when it comes?
And, besides, do you think I would take MONEY from you?
Can't you understand?
If you don't take this money that belongs to you, you would insult me.

That is just the way I would feel about it.

You must see that.