If I do not pay the money, I am ruined, Vjera, disgraced for ever.

It is a debt of honour--you do not understand what that means, child, nor how terrible it is for a man not to pay before the day is over--ah, if it were not a debt of honour!--but there is no time to be lost.

It is almost dark already.

Go home, dear Vjera, go home.

I cannot go with you to-night, for I must find this money.