"Of course there had been words between us. Things always begin in that way."
"You must have driven him very hard."
"Are you going to take his part? Because, if so, there may as well be an end of it. I thought you had found him out and had separated yourself from him. You can't think that he is a gentleman?"
"He is a very liberal man."
"You mean to sell yourself, then, for the money that was made in his father's stables?"
"I have not sold myself at all. I haven't spoken to him for the last month."
"So I understood; therefore I sent for you. You are all back at Manor Cross now?"
"Yes;—we are there."
"You wrote me a letter which I didn't think quite the right thing. But, however, I don't mind telling you that you can have the house if we can come to terms about it."
"What terms?"