I am now on my way home.' 'I am glad we have met.

I want to know if you will let me do something for you, to give me an occupation, as an idle man?
I am sure I ought to help you, for I know you are almost without friends.' She hesitated.

'Why should you tell me that ?' she said.
'In the hope that you will be frank with me.' 'I am not altogether without friends here.

But I am going to make a little change in my life--to go out as a teacher of freehand drawing and practical perspective, of course I mean on a comparatively humble scale, because I have not been specially educated for that profession.

But I am sure I shall like it much.' 'You have an opening ?' 'I have not exactly got it, but I have advertised for one.' 'Lucy, you must let me help you!' 'Not at all.' 'You need not think it would compromise you, or that I am indifferent to delicacy.