It's hers, she needs it, her father's a beggar.
She must take it back.

It's only flaunting her contempt for me in my face and I won't permit it." [Photo, from the play, of Mr.Ryder holding out a cheque to Shirley.] "So I contaminate even good money ?"--Act IV.
"I don't think her object in refusing that money was to flaunt contempt in your face, or in any way humiliate you," answered Jefferson.

"She feels she has been sailing under false colours and desires to make some reparation." "And so she sends me back my money, feeling that will pacify me, perhaps repair the injury she has done me, perhaps buy me into entering into her plan of helping her father, but it won't.

It only increases my determination to see her and her--" Suddenly changing the topic he asked: "When do you leave us ?" "Now--at once--that is--I--don't know," answered Jefferson embarrassed.

"The fact is my faculties are numbed--I seem to have lost my power of thinking.