Something may occur to you within the next
few months. Don't let it be a hospital, if you can help it--something
altogether original would be best. Set your brain to work. I shall be
at your service at any moment."
He rose to his feet and began slowly to collect his belongings. Then
their eyes met, and she burst out laughing--he too smiled.
"You are very ingenious, Lord Arranmore," she said.
"It is my conscience," he assured her. "It is out of gear to the tune
of three thousand."
"I don't believe in the conscience," she answered. 'This is sheer
obstinacy. You have made up your mind that I should be interested in
that money somehow, and you can't bear to suffer defeat."
"I am an old man," he said, "and you are a young woman. Let us leave it
where it is for a while. I have an idea of the sort of life which you
are planning for yourself. Believe me, that before you have lived here
for many months you will be willing to give years of your life, years of
your labour and your youth, to throw yourself into a struggle which
without money is hopeless. Remember that there was a time when I too
was young.
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