21/23 I am so anxious,--so very anxious to try to put him on his legs, and I find it so difficult to get any connecting link with him. Papa will not speak with him,--because of money." "But he is friends with you." "Yes; I think he loves me. I saw how distasteful it was to you to go to him;--and probably you were engaged ?" "One can always get off those sort of things if there is an object." "Yes;--just so. And the object was to oblige me;--was it not ?" "Of course it was. |