"John, can you settle the matter of the mill now? I want no more to do with it and you know you promised to buy my share in that case."
"I want to build my home. I cannot build and buy at the same time."
"Why need you build? There is Hatton Hall for you, and mother will not object to the nobly born Jane Harlow."
"We will not talk of Miss Harlow. Harry, my dear, dear brother, you have come home to turn everything upside down. Let me have a little time to think. Go and see mother. I will talk to you
immediately afterwards. Where did you leave the yacht?"
"At London. I disliked Captain Cook. I felt as if I was with a tutor of some sort all the time. He said he would take the yacht to her wharf at Whitby and then write to you. You ought to have a letter today. I don't think you are very glad to see me, John."
"Oh, Harry, you have married that girl, quite regardless of how your marriage would affect your family! You ought to have given us some time to prepare ourselves for such a change."
"Lucy was in trouble, and I could not bear to see her in trouble."
"Well, go and see mother. Perhaps you can bear mother's trouble more easily."
"I hope mother will be kinder to me than you have been. John, I have no money. Let me have a thousand pounds till we settle about the mill."