"No."
"Do you mean to say that none of the Orgreaves have said anything this last day or two?" He leaned forward. They were in opposite corners.
"No," she repeated stiffly. Nevertheless, she remembered a peculiar glance of Tom's to his father on the previous day, when George Cannon's name had been mentioned.
"Well," said he. "You surprise me! That's all!"
"But--" She stopped, full of misgivings.
"Never heard any gossip about me--never?" he persisted, as it were, menacing her.
She shook her head.
"Never heard that I'm not really a solicitor?"
"Oh! well--I think mother once did say something--"
"I thought so."