I took it for an entirely different reason: to put myself where I could tell other people to go to him if I felt so inclined.

I took it so that I could make of myself, if possible, the sort of woman that George Tresslyn might have married without stirring up a row in the family.

I've taken good care of all that money.

It is well invested.

I manage to live and dress on the income.
Rather decent of me, isn't it?
Surprisingly decent, you might say, eh ?" "Surprisingly," he agreed, smiling.
"What George Tresslyn needs, Dr.Thorpe, is something to work for, something to make work an object to him.