It was not his business to interfere.
"I think," he said, "that your brother ought to have provided for you.

He could have done so with very little effort." "But what am I to do now ?" she asked him.

"If I am absent, I shall lose my place." Laverick thought for a moment.
"If you went round there and told them," he suggested, "would that make any difference?
I could stay until you came back." "Do you mind ?" she asked eagerly.

"It would be so kind of you." "Not at all," he answered.

"Perhaps you would be good enough to bring a taxicab back, and I could take it on to my rooms.