If--and she was certain in her heart that it would be so--if he should be successful, then he might speak of love without having to speak in the same breath of poverty as well.

'It will be all over when we meet again,' he said.
'I suppose it will,' said Linda.
'I don't at all like it; it seems so unnatural having to contend against one's friend.

And yet one cannot help it; one cannot allow one's self to go to the wall.' 'I'm sure Harry doesn't mind it,' said Linda.
'I'm sure I do,' said he.

'If I fail I shall be unhappy, and if I succeed I shall be equally so.

I shall set all the world against me.