It is all you have.

A woman should not part with that lightly.

Still, since you have offered it to me, I cannot and do not throw it aside.

If you are of the same mind in six months from now, I shall take you at your word.

But you ought to marry for love, child--you ought to marry for love." He held out his hand to her abruptly, and Molly, with a burning face, gave him both her own.
"I can't think how I did it," she said, in a low voice.