"What's that to us if he has our money ready? I suppose it isn't always easy even for a man like that to get a couple of hundred thousand together. I know I've never found it easy to get a thousand. If he has borrowed a trifle from Longestaffe to make up the girl's money, I shan't complain. You stand to your guns. There's no harm done till the parson has said the word."
"You couldn't let me have a couple of hundred;--could you, sir?" suggested the son.
"No, I couldn't," replied the father with a very determined aspect.
"I'm awfully hard up."

"What's that to us if he has our money ready? I suppose it isn't easy even for a man like that to get a couple of hundred thousand together. If he has borrowed a trifle from Longestaffe to make up the girl's money, I shan't complain. You stand to your guns."
"You couldn't let me have a couple of hundred, could you, sir?" suggested the son.
"No, I couldn't."
"I'm awfully hard up."
