There was no comfort, no consolation to come to him! "For three or four years he must greatly depend upon you," continued Sir Roger.
"I will do what I can," said the doctor.

"What I can do I will do.
But he is not a child, Scatcherd: at his age he must stand or fall mainly by his own conduct.

The best thing for him will be to marry." "Exactly; that's just it, Thorne: I was coming to that.

If he would marry, I think he would do well yet, for all that has come and gone.
If he married, of course you would let him have the command of his own income." "I will be governed entirely by your wishes: under any circumstances his income will, as I understand, be quite sufficient for him, married or single." "Ah!--but, Thorne, I should like to think he should shine with the best of them.

For what have I made the money if not for that?
Now if he marries--decently, that is--some woman you know that can assist him in the world, let him have what he wants.