"I am starving. I have not a shilling in the world."
"Perhaps it may be a comfort to you in your troubles to know that I am, at any rate, as badly off as you are? I won't say that I am starving, because I could get food to eat at this moment if I wanted it; but I am utterly ruined. My property,--what should have been mine,--has been left away from me. I have lost the trumpery seat in Parliament for which I have paid so much. All my relations have turned their backs upon me--"
"Are you not going to be married?" she said, rising quickly from her chair and coming close to him.

"I am starving. I have not a shilling in the world."
"I am as badly off as you are. I won't say that I am starving; but I am utterly ruined. My property - what should have been mine - has been left away from me. I have lost the trumpery seat in Parliament for which I paid so much. All my relations have turned their backs upon me-"
"Are you not going to be married?" she said.
