But my dear boy! how are you going to make a poor housewife out of a girl who has been rich?
How can she ever feel at home in a wretched, out-of-the-way shanty, where she will not even have you always by her side, for you will have to be looking after your daily bread?
She will say nothing, she will make no complaint, but you will perceive that she misses something.

She will not ask you for a new dress, but you will see that the one she wears is shabby and it would break your heart to reflect that you have fettered the girl you love to your step-motherly destiny, and your manly pride would one day blush for the recklessness which led you to drag her down with you." "My dear guardian," said Szilard, "to prove to you that I did think of all these things let me tell you that I have put by from my salary and commissions enough to enable us to live comfortably for at least a twelvemonth.

For a whole year I have lived on two pence a day in order to save, and during all that time I am sure you have not heard from me one word of complaint." Mr.Sipos was horrified.

It was an even worse case than he had imagined.
What! to live for a whole year on two pence a day in order to scrape together a small capital for one's beloved! It would be very difficult to cure a madness which took such a practical turn as this! "But my dear boy!" he resumed, "what is the good of it all?
What can you do now that your secrets are discovered?
It would have served you right if the girl's parents had proceeded against you on a charge of murder, for you were an accomplice in this poisoning business; but I am pretty sure they will only threaten to do so in case she refuses the baron.

And what, pray, can you do in case they thus compel her to become his wife ?" "Whoever the baron may be," rejoined Szilard, "I suppose he is at least a gentleman; and if a woman looks him straight in the face on the wedding day and says to him: 'I cannot love you because I love another and always will love another,'-- I cannot think he will be so devoid of feeling as to make her his wife notwithstanding." "And if she does not say this, but voluntarily gives him her hand in order to save you from the persecutions of her family, what then ?" "Hearken, my dear guardian! She may be compelled to write to me that she loves me no more and I must forget her, but I shall not believe it till she pronounces or writes down a word the meaning of which only we two understand and nobody else in the world can discover.