"He don't want it." "Keep your money, my dear," said Mrs.Landholm; "there is no necessity for your giving him anything." "But why shouldn't I give it to him if I like it ?" said Elizabeth in great wonderment.
"It is a boy that works for my father, Miss Haye," said Winthrop gravely; "your money would be thrown away upon him." "But in this he works for me." "He don't know that." "If he don't -- Money isn't thrown away upon anybody, that ever I heard of," said Elizabeth; "and besides, what if I choose to throw it away ?" "You can.

Only that it is doubtful whether it would be picked up." "You think he wouldn't take it ?" "I think it is very likely." "What a fool! -- Then I shall send away my horse!" said Elizabeth; "for either he must be under obligation to me, or I to him; and I don't choose the latter." "Do you expect to get through the world without being under obligation to anybody ?" said Winthrop smiling.
But Elizabeth had turned, and marching out of the house did not make any reply.
"What's the objection to being under obligation, Miss Elizabeth ?" said Mrs.Landholm.Elizabeth was mounting her horse, in which operation Winthrop assisted her.
"It don't suit me!" "Fortune's suits do not always fit," said Winthrop.

"But then -- " "Then what ?" -- "She never alters them." Elizabeth's eyes fired, and an answer was on her lip, but meeting the very composed face of the last speaker, as he put her foot in the stirrup, she thought better of it.

She looked at him and asked, "What if one does not choose to wear them ?" "Nothing for it but to fight Fortune," said Winthrop smiling; -- "or go without any." "I would rather go anyhow!" said Elizabeth, -- "than be obliged to anybody, -- of course except to my father." "How if you had a husband ?" inquired Mrs.Landholm with a good-humoured face.
It was a turn Elizabeth did not like; she did not answer Mrs.
Landholm as she would have answered her cousin.

She hesitated.
"I never talk about that, Mrs.Landholm," she said a little haughtily, with a very pretty tinge upon her cheek; -- "I would not be obliged to _anybody_ but my father; -- never." "Why ?" said Mrs.Landholm.