"You don't know how fond I was of that one," Rawdon said, half-inarticulately. "Damme, I followed her like a footman. I gave up everything I had to her. I'm a beggar because I would marry her. By Jove, sir, I've pawned my own watch in order to get her anything she fancied; and she--she's been making a purse for herself all the time, and grudged me a hundred pound to get me out of quod." He then fiercely and incoherently, and with an agitation under which his counsellor had never before seen him labour, told Macmurdo the circumstances of the story. His adviser caught at some stray hints in it. "She may be innocent, after all," he said. "She says so. Steyne has been a hundred times alone with her in the house before."

"You don't know how fond I was of that one," Rawdon said. "Damme, I gave up everything I had to her. I'm a beggar because I would marry her. I've pawned my own watch to get her anything she fancied; and she's been making a purse for herself the whole time." He told Macmurdo the story.
"She may be innocent, after all, as she says," his advisor said. "Steyne has been a hundred times alone with her in the house before."
