The lines of her mouth were hard; her heavy lids only half raised themselves.
'I mean that you owe nothing of this kind,' he answered, rather confusedly.

His confidence was less marked; her look overcame his.
'Not ten pounds ?' 'Well, _you_ don't.' He added, 'Whose is this money ?' 'It is my own; I have earned it.' 'Does your father know you are paying it ?' He does not.

I was not likely to speak to him of what you told me.

There is the debt, Mr.Dagworthy; we have paid it, and now I will leave you.
He examined her.

Even yet he could not be sure that he understood.