I'd give all I've got--and all I'm ever likely to get--to prevent you going to Shale Court as a companion." "Oh, but aren't you unreasonable ?" Juliet said.
"No, I'm not." He made a vigorous gesture of repudiation.

"Presumptuous perhaps--but not unreasonable.

I know too much of what goes on there.
Miss Moore, I beseech you--think again! Don't go!" She looked at him in perplexity.

"But it wouldn't be fair to draw back now," she objected.

"Besides--" "Besides," he broke in almost fiercely, "you've got your living to make like the rest of us.