I'm not spotless, but I'll answer any questions you like to put--to your father.

I've not got any profession, though I'm supposed to be a solicitor; but I'm perfectly willing to work if ...

if it's wished, or to stand for Parliament, or anything like that--there hasn't, so far, seemed any real, particular reason why I should work.

That's all.

And I think you know the sort of person I am, all round.
"And now we come to the point." (Dick hesitated a fraction of a second.
He was genuinely moved.) "The point is that I'm in love with you, and I have been for some time past.