I had in addition a good sound body, and I had travelled and seen something of the world.

Of worldly possessions I had just the small savings of my pay and nothing more, and common-sense told me that if I wanted to win Carette Le Marchant I must be up and doing, and must turn myself to more profitable account.
I do not think there was in me any mercenary motive in this matter.

I am quite sure that in so thinking of things I attributed none to Carette.

It seemed to me that if a man wanted a wife he ought to be able to keep her, and I considered the girl who married a man of precarious livelihood--as I saw some of them do--very much of a fool.

I have since come to know, however, that that is only one way of looking at it, and that to some women the wholehearted love of a true man counts for very much more than anything else he can bring her.
For money, simply as money, I had no craving whatever.