You're a little too confiding and too backward, George.

Sylvia slipped through your fingers once before." George's brown face colored deeply.

He was angry, but Mrs.Lansing was not to be deterred.
"Take a hint and stay at home," she went on.

"It might pay you better." "And let Sylvia's property be sacrificed ?" "Yes, if necessary." She looked at him directly.

"You have means enough." He struggled with his indignation.