“As it happens,” with great dignity, “’twas to save him from ruin, and I’m proud to have done it.”
“Of course! It don’t occur to you, I presume, that what the fellow wants is a regular hard time, under a commander who’ll keep his nose to the grindstone, instead of peacocking on the Staff? With you eternally helping him out of every scrape he may choose to get into, he hasn’t a chance. Well, don’t say I haven’t warned you!”
“But sure that’s the very thing I’m doing—helping him go where he’ll be well looked after. Helping him with the money, I mean,” she added in a panic, fearing she had betrayed herself. But Richard, to do him justice, was not suspicious.
“Have it your own way, my dear. You have your own way of doing things, and I suppose you’ll stick to it. Of course it was too much to
