"I've told him that he couldn't expect as much as you would have given her but for this running away."
"You told him that?"
"Yes; I told him that. Then some sum had to be mentioned. He suggested a hundred thousand pounds."
"How very modest. Why should he have put up with less than you, seeing that he has got something of his own?"
"He hasn't my position, Sir. You know that well enough. Now to make a long and short of it, I suggested sixty."
"Out of your own pocket?"
"Not exactly."
"But out of mine?"
"You're her father, and I suppose you intend to provide for her."
"And you have come here to dictate to me the provision which I am to make for my own child! That is an amount of impudence which I did not expect even from you. But suppose that I agree to the terms. Will he, do you think, consent to have a clause put into the settlement?"