"The way to teach people to strive for high wages and to learn thrift is to make them pay full value for what they get.

I don't propose to encourage dishonesty or idleness.

Besides, we'll need the money." Arthur had none of that mean envy which can endure the prosperity of strangers only; he would not even have been able to be jealous of his wife's getting on better than did he.

But, if he had been so disposed, he would have found it hard to indulge such feelings because of Madelene.
She had put their married life on the right basis.

She made him feel, with a certainty which no morbid imagining could have shaken, that she loved and respected him for qualities which could not be measured by any of the world's standards of success.