He says that it would be of great service to him to know what are your intentions; and also that he hopes you may find it convenient to allow him to draw upon you for some portion of it at present.

He says that L3000 would be of great use to him in his business." That was the paragraph, and the work of writing it was so distasteful to her that she could hardly bring herself to form the letters.

It seemed as though she were seizing the advantage of the first moment of her freedom to take a violent liberty with her father.
"It is altogether his own fault, my pet," he said to her.

"I have the greatest respect in the world for your father, but he has allowed himself to fall into the habit of keeping all his affairs secret from his children; and, of course, as they go out into the world, this secrecy must in some degree be invaded.

There is precisely the same thing going on between him and Everett; only Everett is a great deal rougher to him than you are likely to be.