Her father stood on the brink of ruin, and she could not help him.
"If only," said she, "it had been anything else! O God, pity my poor father!" The captain's thoughts were of a very different kind.

He had clung to the hope that Rosalind would after all solve his difficulties by undertaking the venture he had set before her.

He had already in imagination soothed his own conscience and smoothed away all the difficulties which beset the undertaking.
"It might be for her good, after all, dear girl! She will reclaim him.
A fortune lies before them; for Roger will be easily convinced, and will surrender his claim to them.

Ratman is too long-sighted not to see that I can help him in the matter, and that on my own terms.

We shall start fresh with a clear balance-sheet, and live in comfort." Now, however, these bright hopes were dashed, and to the captain's mind he owed his failure, first and last, to Mr Frank Armstrong.