Then Lord Chiltern strode after the man into his father's room.
"Oswald," said the father, "I have sent for you because I think it may be as well to speak to you on some business.

Will you sit down ?" Lord Chiltern sat down, but did not answer a word.

"I feel very unhappy about your sister's fortune," said the Earl.
"So do I,--very unhappy.

We can raise the money between us, and pay her to-morrow, if you please it." "It was in opposition to my advice that she paid your debts." "And in opposition to mine too." "I told her that I would not pay them, and were I to give her back to-morrow, as you say, the money that she has so used, I should be stultifying myself.

But I will do so on one condition.