About the lodging?
A sitting-room and bedroom will be enough, I suppose?
In this neighbourhood, I am afraid the terms will be rather high." "Oh, never mind that! Let us have clean airy rooms--and a kind landlady.
Teresa mustn't know it, if the terms are high." "Will she allow you to pay her expenses ?" "Ah, _you_ put it delicately! My aunt seemed to doubt if Teresa had any money of her own.

I forgot, at the time, that my father had left her a little income.

She told me so herself, and wondered, poor dear, how she was to spend it all.

She mustn't be allowed to spend it all.

We will tell her that the terms are half what they may really be--and I will pay the other half.