"I have thought of it a good deal too. I have been thinking of it for six months at least."

"There is so much against me."

"What is there against you?"

"They say bad things of me in India."

"I know all about that," replied Mr. Broune.

"And Felix!"

"I think I may say that I know all about that also."

"And then I have become so poor!"

"I am not proposing to myself to marry you for your money. Luckily for me,—I hope luckily for both of us,—it is not necessary that I should do so."

"And then I seem so to have fallen through in everything. I don't know what I've got to give to a man in return for all that you offer to give to me."