_I'll_ always stick by you" (observes that Vivie is trying to keep back her tears).
"Vivie--_darling_--what do you want me to do?
Why not marry me and spend half my income, take the shelter of my name--I'm an A.R.A.
now--You needn't do more than keep house for me....

I'm rather a valetudinarian--dare say I shan't trouble you long--we could have a jolly good time before I went off with a heart attack--travel--study--write books together--" _Vivie_ (recovering herself): "Thanks, dear Praddy; you are a brick and I really--in a way--have quite got to love you.

Except an office boy in Chancery Lane and W.T.Stead, I don't know any other decent man.

But I'm not going to marry any one.

I'm going to become Vavasour Williams--the name is rotten, but you must take what you can get.