"Foh! In this very room, when we spoke last, I scouted that bogie's existence."
"If you don't believe in evil existing, you can't in good. No devil, no God, Lady James."
"I never knew that the Deity depended upon Satan for his being," said Leah, dryly; "and theology doesn't amuse me--it's cobwebs and spindrift. Talk sense, if you must talk."
Lionel, hoping to lead her by a side-path to further consideration of her spiritual needs, consented to diverge for the moment. "I'll talk money, if you call that sense."
"Of course I do; uncommon sense, as there is so little of it. Money?" She looked at him questioningly.
"The insurance on your late husband's life."
"Oh! Well?" She wondered what he was about to say.
"The Duke asked me to interview the lawyers."
"Very unnecessary. I know all about the twenty thousand pounds. Jim left it to me, by will."
"You underestimate by ten thousand."