Pshaw!
ETHEL
It was unworthy of me, unworthy of the higher and nobler things that life calls me to live up to
[proudly]
—that I shall live up to. The money means nothing to me—I am not thinking of that. It is merely a necessary form.
PIKE
Have you talked with Mr. St. Aubyn about this settlement—this present you want to make him?
ETHEL
Not with him.
PIKE