Was it fair, was it honorable, that a half-pay surgeon should take such advantage of an intimacy which chance had brought about? Might she not look upon me as a mere vulgar fortune-seeker?
Mocht ik dus van de toevallige omstandigheid, waardoor ik met haar in kennis was gekomen, en mijne betrekkelijk bekrompen omstandigheden als geneesheer, partij trachten te trekken?