"Because it was your business, and not mine."
"How dare you separate my business and yours? What do you think I have done?"
"Given the young lady five hundred pounds down on the nail."
"Worse than that."
"Worse?"
"Much worse. But why did you send my sister to my chambers?"
"But what have you done, papa? You don't mean that you have given the shark more than he demands?"
"I don't know that he's a shark. Why shouldn't the man want five hundred pounds with his wife? Mr. Barry would want much more with you, and would be entitled to ask for much more."
"You are my father."
"Yes; but those poor girls have been taught to look upon me almost as their father."