"A very good thing too, I'm sure," said Alice; "only it depends something on the sort of wife you get."
"You mean, of course, how much money she has."
"Not altogether."
"Looking at it from my cousin's point of view, I suppose that it is the only important point. Who are there coming up this year,--in the way of heiresses?"
"Upon my word I don't know. In the first place, how much money makes an heiress?"
"For such a fellow as me, I suppose ten thousand pounds ought to do."
"That's not much," said Alice, who had exactly that amount of her own.

"A very good thing too, I'm sure," said Alice; "only it depends on the sort of wife you get."
"You mean how much money she has."
"Not altogether."
"From my cousin's point of view, that it is the only important point. Who is coming up this year, in the way of heiresses?"
"I don't know. How much money makes an heiress?"
"For such a fellow as me, I suppose ten thousand pounds ought to do."
"That's not much," said Alice, who had exactly that amount of her own.
