\"Oh, well—that's discounted, isn't it? My belief is he'll pull out yet,\" said the young man, wanting to change the subject.
\"Perhaps—perhaps. I know he was to see some of the influential people today. Of course,\" Mr. Jackson reluctantly conceded, \"it's to be hoped they can tide him over—this time anyhow. I shouldn't like to think of poor Regina's spending the rest of her life in some shabby foreign watering-place for bankrupts.\"
\"Oh, well—that's discounted, isn't it? My belief is he'll pull out yet,\" said the young man, wanting to change the subject.
\"Perhaps—perhaps. I know he was to see some of the influential people today. Of course,\" Mr. Jackson reluctantly conceded, \"it's to be hoped they can tide him over—this time anyhow. I shouldn't like to think of poor Regina's spending the rest of her life in some shabby foreign watering-place for bankrupts.\"
