He used to hold her bouquets, clean her gloves (I was told), run her errands, get her opera-boxes, and fight her battles with the shopkeepers.

For this he needed courage, for she was smothered in debt.

She at last left Rome to escape her creditors.

Many of them must remember her still, but she seems now to have money to satisfy them.

She left her poor old father here alone--helpless, infirm and unable to work.