By George, I believe I'd be as poor as he is, and paint for a living, if I couldn't have Jerrie without it.

But I think I can; anyway, I am going to try.

She cannot be insensible to the advantage it would be to her to be my wife, and eventually the mistress of Tracy Park.

There is not a girl in the world who would not consider twice before she threw such a chance away.' Such was the nature of Tom's reflections all through the dinner, and to him the tiresome talk which followed it and the short summer night during which he was planning his mode of attack.
'I'll call in the morning and take her some roses; she likes flowers,' he thought.

'I wonder what she did with those I gave her at Vassar?
They were not with her on the car, unless she hid them in the paper box she carried so carefully.