MISS TESMAN.

You will have your own salary to depend upon now. And, good heavens,
even if we did have to pay up a little---! To eke things out a bit
at the start---! Why, it would be nothing but a pleasure to us.


TESMAN.

Oh Auntie--will you never be tired of making sacrifices for me!


MISS TESMAN.

[Rises and lays her hand on his shoulders.] Have I any other happiness
in this world except to smooth your way for you, my dear boy. You,
who have had neither father nor mother to depend on. And now we have
reached the goal, George! Things have looked black enough for us,
sometimes; but, thank heaven, now you have nothing to fear.


TESMAN.

Yes, it is really marvellous how every thing has turned out for the
best.


MISS TESMAN.