“With that man listening in the doorway?”
“With that man listening in the doorway.”
“Polly has no money to spare, Mr. Earle. Of the twenty thousand left her you have already had ten——”
“For my just debts, Mr. Unwin.”
“For your just debts, granted, Mr. Earle, but those debts were not incurred for her benefit, nor have you ever deigned to particularize to her just what they were.”
“I would not burden her young mind.”
“No, it has been enough for you to burden her purse.”
“I should have burdened her conscience had I neglected to ask for her assistance.”
“And will you now, by declining to take away her last hope, allow her the means of retrieving the fortune of which you have so nearly robbed her?”
“Her hopes? Her means? I think you are speaking for yourself, sir.”