He must cut out the smaller charities.
So he left off the Children's Hospital Christmas-tree Fund, and the soup-kitchen, and a few insignificant things like them into which he had been worried by Mrs.Wright and other troublesome women.

The only regret he had was that taken together these sums did not amount to a great deal.

To bring the saving up he came near cutting out the hospital.
However, he decided not to do so.

Mrs.Wright believed in him.

He would leave out one of the pictures he had intended to buy; he would deny himself, and not cut out the big charity.