You may pay for him, if you like.

We won't be hard about terms, but you shall pay if you will.' 'On that understanding,' said my aunt, 'though it doesn't lessen the real obligation, I shall be very glad to leave him.' 'Then come and see my little housekeeper,' said Mr.Wickfield.
We accordingly went up a wonderful old staircase; with a balustrade so broad that we might have gone up that, almost as easily; and into a shady old drawing-room, lighted by some three or four of the quaint windows I had looked up at from the street: which had old oak seats in them, that seemed to have come of the same trees as the shining oak floor, and the great beams in the ceiling.

It was a prettily furnished room, with a piano and some lively furniture in red and green, and some flowers.

It seemed to be all old nooks and corners; and in every nook and corner there was some queer little table, or cupboard, or bookcase, or seat, or something or other, that made me think there was not such another good corner in the room; until I looked at the next one, and found it equal to it, if not better.

On everything there was the same air of retirement and cleanliness that marked the house outside.
Mr.Wickfield tapped at a door in a corner of the panelled wall, and a girl of about my own age came quickly out and kissed him.