'Accept it?
Certainly.

Why should we bear the loss if he's able to make it good?
He seems to be very well off for an unmarried man.' 'Yes,' replied Mumford, 'but he's just going to marry, and it seems--Well, after all, you know, he didn't really cause the damage.

I should have felt much less scruple if Higgins had offered to pay--' 'He _did_ cause the damage,' asseverated Emmeline.

'It was his gross or violent behaviour.

If we had been insured it wouldn't matter so much.