"I don't wonder at your indignation, but the fact is, I love her so much, that I fear to put it to the touch myself.

You _will_ help me, won't you?
You see, you stand in the place of her father, Curzon.

If you were her father, I should be saying to you just what I am saying now." "True," says the professor.

His head is lowered.

"There, go," says he, "I must think this over." "But I may depend upon you"-- anxiously--"you will do what you can for me ?" "I shall do what I can for _her_.".