'And it was impossible for him to refuse opportunities.' 'Impossible; I know,' Marian replied earnestly.

'Don't think that I wish to justify my father.

But I can understand him, and it must be very difficult for you to do so.

You can't know, as I do, how intensely he has suffered in these wretched, ignoble quarrels.

If only you will let me come here still, in the same way, and still be as friendly to me.