If you come with me, you will at least have time to think before acting.

But here, you may be forced to act before you have been able to think." But Bosio shook his head slowly.
"There are difficulties which can be helped by putting them off," he answered.

"This is not one.

You forget that in just three weeks my brother will be ruined--absolutely ruined--if he cannot pay.

If I stayed that time with you, I should come back to find him a beggar--or obliged to throw himself upon Veronica's mercy and charity for his daily bread and for a roof to cover him." "There is one other way," said the priest, thoughtfully.