If there has been anything to trouble you since you saw your
father why have you not written and told me? Is your trouble about
me?"
"Well, of course it is, in a sort of way."
"I will not be a trouble to you."
"Now you are going to misunderstand me! Of course, you are not a
trouble to me. You know that I love you better than anything in the
world."
"I hope so."
"Of course I do." Then he put his arm round her waist and pressed her
to his bosom. "But what can a man do? When Lady Chiltern recommended
that I should go to my father and tell him, I did it. I knew that no
good could come of it. He wouldn't lift his hand to do anything for
me."
"How horrid that is!"
"He thinks it a shame that I should have my uncle's money, though he
never had any more right to it than that man out there. He is always
saying that I am better off than he is."
"I suppose you are."
"I am very badly off, I know that. People seem to think that L800 is
ever so much, but I find it to be very little."
"And it will be much less if you are married," said Adelaide gravely.
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