Dysart has a manner of treating him which is most offensive, but it only reflects discredit on Dysart.
"Delancy told me that Rosalie is hostess in her own cottage this month and has asked him up.

I heard him speaking rather diffidently to Dysart about it, and Dysart replied that he didn't 'give a damn who went to the house,' as he wasn't going.
"So much for gossip; now a fact or two: my father is plainly worried over the business outlook; and he's quite alone in the house; and that is why I don't go back to Roya-Neh just now and join your brother.

I could do plenty of work there.

Scott writes that the new studio is in good shape for me.

What a generous girl you are! Be certain that at the very first opportunity I will go and occupy it and paint, no doubt, several exceedingly remarkable pictures in it which will sell for enormous prices and enable us to keep a maid-of-all-work when we begin our menage! "Father has retired--poor old governor--it tears me all to pieces to see him so silent and listless.