The other shrugged his shoulders.
"I leave that to you. You know how much or how little you regard this disaster as a personal one."
"It has nothing whatever to do with me. I never lent him a penny. He never asked me to do so."
"You don't recognise any obligation?"
"Absolutely not a shadow of any such thing."
"The family of which you are now head——?"
"A sentimental lawyer!"
The other laughed.
"Not much room for sentimentality—at least, plenty of room, no doubt. Of course, if you don't consider——"
He broke off, but his listener did not speak.