“It might be considerable for me to receive, but it would be too little for Mr. Wentworth to pay after all his obligations to you. No, father, don’t take the money.”
“This is your settled opinion, Gerald? You have considered carefully all the risk you run, all the inconvenience that may come from poverty?”
“Yes, father.”
“I am glad you have no doubt on the subject. As for me, I have been in great uncertainty.”
“You need be so no longer, father.”
“Then when Wentworth broaches the subject again I will tell him, both for you and myself, that I decline his offer.”
“Yes, father.”
“I don’t think he will increase it.”
“Nor do I.”