"They want too much--seven hundred and fifty is too large a sum--and in short, I have declined to go further.

We must wait for another opportunity.

I fear I am not a good business-man." He spoke the last words with a momentary faltering at the great foolishness of his act; for, as he looked in her fair and honorable face, his heart reproached him for what he had done.
Her manner that evening showed her disappointment.

Personally she liked the home of her childhood much, and she was not ambitious.

But her husband had seemed so dissatisfied with the circumstances hereabout since their marriage that she had sincerely hoped to go for his sake.
It was two or three days before he visited Mrs.Charmond again.