I not only entered her into that school for a course of three years, but acting through its mistress who had taken a great fancy to her, supplied her with the necessities her position required.

It was so easy; merely the signing of a check from time to time, and it was done.

I say this because I really think if it had involved any personal sacrifice on my part, even of an hour of my time, or the labor of a thought, I should not have done it.

For with my return to the city my interest in my cousin revived, absorbing me to such an extent that any matter disconnected with her soon lost all charm for me.
"Two years passed; I was the slave of Evelyn Blake, but there was no engagement between us.

My father's determined opposition was enough to prevent that.