I am the cause of your separation from Miss Garland, the cause of your being exposed to temptations which she hardly even suspects.

How could I ever face her," Rowland demanded, with much warmth of tone, "if at the end of it all she should be unhappy ?" "I had no idea that Miss Garland had made such an impression on you.
You are too zealous; I take it she did n't charge you to look after her interests." "If anything happens to you, I am accountable.

You must understand that." "That 's a view of the situation I can't accept; in your own interest, no less than in mine.

It can only make us both very uncomfortable.

I know all I owe you; I feel it; you know that! But I am not a small boy nor an outer barbarian any longer, and, whatever I do, I do with my eyes open.