“I’m beginning to think, Rachel, that he has gone.”
“Well, we know he has gone.”
“But I mean for good.”
“He couldn’t. It’s not in him. Gone for bad, you mean.”
“I mean gone, never to come back.”
“Good gracious, Phineas! Do you think he knows?”
“It is impossible to say; but he has had ten thousand pounds in hard cash.”
“The wretch!”
“And I suppose I shall have to be answerable for the amount to the rightful heir.”
“Why, Phineas, it would half ruin you if you had to pay.”