It's too much to expect that she could bear to see me and listen to what I have to say.' 'The less she's reminded of the past the better, I think.' 'But would it not be possible to do something?
I am told that the sum was about fifteen hundred pounds.

The whole of that I couldn't restore; but half of it--I could afford so much.

Could I offer to do so--not directly, in my own name, but through you ?' Harvey reflected, his head and body bent forward, his hands folded together.

In the flat beneath, someone was jingling operetta on a piano not quite in tune; the pertinacious vivacity of the airs interfered with Harvey's desire to view things seriously.

He had begun to wonder how large a capital Mrs.Frothingham had at her command.