"How 'for her parents'?"
"Suppose—I am just supposing,—suppose he has money, and they haven't. Suppose, for instance, they are in difficulties, and by her sacrificing herself she can put them out of difficulty? Such a case might be, you know."
"Often has been; or at least people have thought so. But, Miss Dolly, where is a young lady's first duty?"
"To God, of course; her first duty."
"And next after God?"
"To her parents, I suppose."
"And besides her parents?"
"I don't know; nobody, I think."
"Let us see. She owes something to herself."
"Does she?"