Don't interrupt, don't attempt to deceive me.

If you don't want to answer my questions, simply shake your head! And now sit down, my son! You are still barely convalescent.
Your head is weak and what I have to say to you might very well make it reel again." [Footnote 3: Strong, firm.] Then the old lawyer tenderly pressed the youth into a chair and sighing deeply, thus continued: "You fell in love with the daughter of a great family and she with you.

You got acquainted at a dance and the intimacy did not stop there.

Every conceivable obstacle intervened between you, but love is artful and inventive and you found a way.

The rich girl had a neglected brother whom his relations sent to the grammar school and the rascal frequently took refuge with me, the family attorney, when he was ill-treated at home, and here you came across him.