'Let you sleep here, my daughter—sleep up here among the servants!'
He stayed a few minutes in her room, and while warming his hands, he said:
'Everything in the world is dependent on money. We can preserve neither our own nor the respect of others if we have nothing. I have tried. It wasn't to be done.'
IV.
'I'm not disturbing you, father?'
'No, dear: you never disturb me,' he said, getting up from the type- writer and giving her his chair. 'But what is the matter?'
'Nothing, at least nothing in particular. I got tired of the drawing- room, and thought I'd like to come and sit with you. But I've taken your chair.'
'It doesn't matter. I can stand, I've been sitting so long.'
'But no, father, I can't take your chair. I don't want to stop you from working. I thought I'd like to sit and watch you. Here, take your chair.'
'I can get another. I can get one out of the butler's room. He won't mind just for once. He's a very particular man. But I'll tell him I took it for you.'