But Tom hasn't brought home ten shillings the last month, and it seems to me as if he was getting careless.

I gave her half-a-crown; it was all I could do.

And the worst of it is, they think I could do so much more if I liked.

They're always hinting that we are rich people, and it's no good my trying to persuade them.

They think I'm telling falsehoods, and it's very hard to be looked at in that way; it is, indeed, Marian.' 'You can't help it, mother.