When I offered you a home I didn't undertake to pay your gambling debts." "Aunt Julia! You don't mean that you won't help me ?" "I shall certainly not do anything to give the impression that I countenance your behaviour.

If you really owe your dress-maker, I will settle with her--beyond that I recognize no obligation to assume your debts." Lily had risen, and stood pale and quivering before her aunt.

Pride stormed in her, but humiliation forced the cry from her lips: "Aunt Julia, I shall be disgraced--I--" But she could go no farther.

If her aunt turned such a stony ear to the fiction of the gambling debts, in what spirit would she receive the terrible avowal of the truth?
"I consider that you ARE disgraced, Lily: disgraced by your conduct far more than by its results.

You say your friends have persuaded you to play cards with them; well, they may as well learn a lesson too.