"Yes," he said, "I think likely he might.
Course 'twouldn't be any great of a place, not at first--nor ever, I cal'late, so far as that goes.

'Tain't a very big bank and wages ain't--" But she interrupted.

"But that doesn't make any difference," she cried.

"Don't you see it doesn't! The salary and all that won't count--now.

It will be a start for Charles, an opportunity for him to feel that he is a man again, doing a man's work, an honest man's work.