"Do you give it?"
"Yes. I promise not to appear against my wife in her suit for divorce, or in any way to impede its progress. Does that satisfy you? You'll find I'm a man of my word, Mr. Stanley, when I'm as well paid for it, as in the present case."
"Now what did you expect to receive from this transaction?"
"Ten per cent. on the amount distributed—say four thousand pounds."
"I see. And what did you propose to give to Miss Fitzgerald?"
"I said I'd share it with her."
"That is, you'd each have two thousand pounds."
"Exactly—but she's such a mercenary, avaricious little baggage, she struck for more; said she had the most dangerous part to perform, and by Gad! they allotted her three-fourths."
"Three thousand pounds. Quite a neat little sum."
"Rather! I was only to receive one thousand pounds."