Julius helps me when I'm hard up--and bullies me afterward.

He has sent me here, on duty for the family.

Somebody must be civil to Lady Lundie--and I'm the sacrifice." She took him up at his last word.

"Don't make the sacrifice," she said.
"Apologize to Lady Lundie, and say you are obliged to go back." "Why ?" "Because we must both leave this place to-day." There was a double objection to that.

If he left Lady Lundie's, he would fail to establish a future pecuniary claim on his brother's indulgence.
And if he left with Anne, the eyes of the world would see them, and the whispers of the world might come to his father's ears.
"If we go away together," he said, "good-by to my prospects, and yours too." "I don't mean that we shall leave together," she explained.