'Ah, if only I had the money,' he sighed.
'But you wouldn't care to live in the country ?' said Althea.
'There's nowhere else I really care to live.

Nothing would please me so much as to spend the rest of my life at Merriston, dabbling at my painting and going in seriously for farming.' 'Why don't you do it ?' 'Why, money! I've got no money.

It's expensive work to educate oneself by experience, and I'm ignorant.

You show me how ignorant.

No; I'm afraid I'm to go on drifting, and never lead the life I best like.' Althea was silent.