[The Lighted Way by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Lighted Way CHAPTER XII 12/31
It isn't money that's worrying him." "Perhaps he doesn't hit it off with his wife," Arnold remarked. Mr.Jarvis drew a little breath.
For a moment he was speechless.
To him it seemed something like profanity that this young man should make so casual a suggestion. "Mrs.Weatherley, sir," he declared, "was, I believe, without any means whatever when Mr.Weatherley made her his wife.
Mr. Weatherley, as you know, is at the head of this house, the house of Samuel Weatherley & Co., bankers Lloyds.
It should be the business of the lady, sir, to see that she hits it off, as you put it, with a husband who has done her so much honor." Arnold smiled. "That is all very well, Mr.Jarvis," he said, "but you must remember that Mrs.Weatherley had compensations for her lack of wealth.
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