"And very nearly succeeded."
"Forster says that if we do anything, all that must come out."
"There need not be the slightest hesitation as far as I am concerned, Lord Brentford."
"You know he keeps all her money."
"At present I suppose he couldn't give it up."
"Why not? Why shouldn't he give it up? God bless my soul! Forty thousand pounds and all for nothing. When he married he declared that he didn't care about it! Money was nothing to him! So she lent it to Chiltern."
"I remember."
"But they hadn't been together a year before he asked for it. Now there it is;—and if she were to die to-morrow it would be lost to the family. Something must be done, you know. I can't let her money go in that way."
"You'll do what Mr. Forster suggests, no doubt."
"But he won't suggest anything. They never do. He doesn't care what becomes of the money. It never ought to have been given up as it was."