from previous-

-he  felt  sorry  for  himself, if  zeni"s  father  liked  him and  the  girl  insisted   she  wished   him only  as  her  groom , his  mother  was  hasty  in taking  a  decision so  important  without  asking  him first, they  had  helped  them financially  but  it  was  his own  intelligence  and  hard  work  of  mother  and  son that  today  they  were  so  successful , they  could  repay  them in some other  way,