"A quarter of a million?
And it would be all my own?
I could do anything with it I liked ?" "Well--I think I should put it in trust.

I haven't much faith in the resistance of your sex to tempting investments promising a high rate of interest." "I have heard you say that when rich men die the amount of worthless stock found in their safe deposit boxes passes belief." "Quite true.

But that is hardly an argument in favor of trusting an even more inexperienced sex with large sums of money." She laughed, but less naturally than when he had been seized with an unwonted spasm of jealousy.

"You will always get the best of me in an argument," she said with her exquisite politeness.

"Really, I think I love being wholly dependent upon you.