It's all very well for you, Henry; you can go your own way.

I have to be there always.

Besides, you know what our house is.

You wouldn't be happy either, if you didn't do something.
It isn't that I haven't the time at home--it's the atmosphere." Here, presumably, she imagined that her cousin, who had listened with his usual intelligent sympathy, raised his eyebrows a little, and interposed: "Well, but what do you want to do ?" Even in this purely imaginary dialogue, Katharine found it difficult to confide her ambition to an imaginary companion.
"I should like," she began, and hesitated quite a long time before she forced herself to add, with a change of voice, "to study mathematics--to know about the stars." Henry was clearly amazed, but too kind to express all his doubts; he only said something about the difficulties of mathematics, and remarked that very little was known about the stars.
Katharine thereupon went on with the statement of her case.
"I don't care much whether I ever get to know anything--but I want to work out something in figures--something that hasn't got to do with human beings.

I don't want people particularly.