She learnt that he had applied to her husband for money.
It is hard to have one's prop of self-respect cut away just when we are suffering a martyr's agony at the stake.

There was a five minutes' tragic colloquy in the recesses behind the scenes,--totally tragic to Diaper, who had fondly hoped to bask in the warm sun of that annuity, and re-emerge from his state of grub.

The lady then wrote the letter Sir Austin held open to his sister.

The atmosphere behind the scenes is not wholesome, so, having laid the Ghost, we will return and face the curtain.
That infinitesimal dose of The World which Master Ripton Thompson had furnished to the System with such instantaneous and surprising effect was considered by Sir Austin to have worked well, and to be for the time quite sufficient, so that Ripton did not receive a second invitation to Raynham, and Richard had no special intimate of his own age to rub his excessive vitality against, and wanted none.

His hands were full enough with Tom Bakewell.