'I have no
other affairs. You see that I am going from here.'
'And where are you going?' She shook her head. 'With whom will
you live?'
'With Miss Cass,--two old maids together. I know nothing further.'
'But about money? That is if I am justified in asking.'
'What would you not be justified in asking? Do you not know that
I would tell you every secret of my own heart;--if my heart had a
secret? It seems that I have given up what was to have been my
fortune. There was a claim of twelve thousand pounds on Grex. But
I have abandoned it.'
'And there is nothing?'
'There will be scrapings they tell me,--unless Percival refuses to
agree. This house is mortgaged, but not for its value. And there
are some jewels. But all that is detestable,--a mere grovelling
among mean hundreds; whereas you,--you will soar among--'
'Oh Mabel! do not say hard things to me.'
'No, indeed! why should I,--I who have been preaching that
comfortable doctrine of hypocrisy? I will say nothing hard. But I
would sooner talk of your good things than my evil ones.
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