So far as regards the monetary part of it, I still owe your brother a great deal--" She shook her head, interrupting him with a quick little gesture.
"No, no!" she declared.

"I have never complained about Arthur.
Sometimes he made me suffer, because I know that he was ashamed of having a relative in the chorus, but I am quite sure that I do not wish to take any of his money--or of anybody else's," she added.
"I want always to earn my own living." "For such a child," he remarked, smiling, "you are wonderfully independent." "Why not ?" she answered softly.

"It is years since I had any one to do very much for me.

Necessity teaches us a good many things.
Oh, I was helpless enough when it began!" she added, with a little sigh.

"I got over it.