"Sold out? Is there any more bad news? Do you know what father paid for your commission? Do you know how it hampered him to do it? that, in fact, he has never been quite easy about ready money since?"
"I had to sell out. Did I not tell you that Beatrice could not live in this climate? She was very ill when she returned to Italy. Signor Lanza was in great trouble about her."
"Signor Lanza? Her brother, I suppose."
"You suppose wrong. He is her father."
"For her, then, you have given up your faith, your country, your home, your profession, every thing that other men hold dear and sacred. Do you expect father to support you? Or is your wife to sing in Italy?"
"I think you are trying how disagreeable you can be, Charlotte."
"I am asking you honest questions in honest words."
"I have the money from the sale of my commission."
"It does not then strike you as dishonorable to keep it?"