14/31 But a hundred a year will be nothing to you." "Won't it, sir? I'm to have a hundred and fifty from the office; and I should be ready to marry on that to-morrow." "You couldn't live on such an income--unless you were to alter your habits very much." "But I will alter them." "We shall see. You are so placed, that by marrying you would lose a considerable income; and I would advise you to put off thinking of it for the next two years." "My belief is, that settling down would be the best thing in the world to make me work." "We'll try what a year will do. So Florence is to go to your father's house at Easter ?" "Yes, sir; she has been good enough to promise to come, if you have no objection." "It is quite as well that they should know her early. I only hope they will like her, as well as we like you. |