They would have done what they could"-- she did them justice"-- if there had been a way.

But there wasn't a way, and Charlotte, quite to her honour, I consider, understood it.

He HAD to have money--it was a question of life and death.

It wouldn't have been a bit amusing, either, to marry him as a pauper--I mean leaving him one.

That was what she had--as HE had--the reason to see." "And their reason is what you call their romance ?" She looked at him a moment.