"Not heartily like that. I know that people abuse me;--my own people, my grandfather, and probably your father,--saying that I am reckless and the rest of it. I do risk everything for my object; but I do not know that any one can blame me,--unless it be Kate. To whom else do I owe anything?"
"Kate does not blame you."
"No; she sympathizes with me; she, and she only, unless it be you." Then he paused for an answer, but she made him none. "She is brave enough to give me her hearty sympathy. But perhaps for that very reason I ought to be the more chary in endangering the only support that she is like to have. What is ninety pounds a year for the maintenance of a single lady?"

"Not heartily like that. I know that people abuse me, saying that I am reckless and the rest of it. I do risk everything for my object; but I do not know that anyone can blame me, unless it be Kate. To whom else do I owe anything?"
"Kate does not blame you."
"No; she sympathizes with me; no-one else does, unless it be you." Then he paused for an answer, but she made him none. "She is brave enough to give me her hearty sympathy. But perhaps for that very reason I ought to be more careful in endangering the only support that she is likely to have."
