It shows how we feel about you that we are having you here, like this.

But we can only do it if you'll take us as we are." "Of course I take you as you are," he said aggrieved, "but I don't see why I shouldn't do my little bit, when it's so easy for me to do it.
People talk such rot about money! They'll take anything in the world but money from those who--" he hesitated, and then boldly brought out the word--"love them." "And yet," said Betty quietly, "you yourself contemptuously rejected the money that father wanted to give you when he could well afford it--the day you left Beechfield nine years ago." He hesitated, unutterably astonished, and yes, very much moved, too, at this, her first reference to their joint past.
"I know I did," he said at last, "and I was a fool to do it.

That cheque of Mr.Tosswill's would have made all the difference to me during certain awful weeks in Australia when I didn't know where to turn for a shilling.
I've been right up against it--the reality of things, I mean--and I know both how much and how little money counts in life.

It counts a lot, Betty." "I've been up against the reality of things, too," said Betty slowly, "and I've learnt how very little money counts.

You'd have known that, if you'd been with the French Army.