Can I aid you?
You may need money.

Here is my purse." "I do not want it," replied the other, scornfully rejecting the offer.
"I have a proposal to make to you." "I shall be glad to hear it," replied Leonard.

"But first tell me how you effected your escape after your arrest on that disastrous night when, in self-defence, and unintentionally, I wounded your son, Lord Argentine ?" "Would you had killed him!" cried the other, fiercely.

"I have lost all feelings of a father for him.

He it was who contrived my arrest, and he would have gladly seen me borne to the scaffold, certain it would have freed him from me for ever.