You will pay my rent, I dare say, and help me through when I want it; but that's nothing.

The point is, that I cannot submit to your career being spoiled through your poor father's mad imprudence.

You must retrieve yourself--you _must_.
Nobody is anything nowadays in the world without money; you know that as well as I do.

And besides, there is another reason.

You have got to forget the affair of last spring, to put it entirely behind you, to show that horrid woman who threw you over that you will make your life a success in spite of her.