If Alice Maud was allowed to give up her work, to wear more expensive gowns, even to receive lessons on the pianoforte, she had to thank Dick for it.

And when 'Arry was told that his clerkship at the drain-pipe manufactory was about to terminate, that he might enter upon a career likely to be more fruitful of distinction, again it was Dick's brotherly kindness.

Mrs.
Mutimer did her best to keep up this deception.
But Richard was well aware that the deception could not be lasting, and had the Princess alone been concerned he would probably never have commenced it.

It was about his brother that he was really anxious.

'Arry might hear the truth any day, and Richard gravely feared the result of such a discovery.