'Pay down half a million!' thundered Beauchamp; and dropping his voice, 'or go to him.'
'You remind me,' his uncle observed. 'I recommend you to ring that bell, and have Mrs. Culling here.'
'If she comes she will hear what I think of her.'
'Then, out of the house!'
'Very well, sir. You decline to supply me with money?'
'I do.'
'I must have it!'
'I dare say. Money's a chain-cable for holding men to their senses.'
'I ask you, my lord, how I am to carry on Holdesbury?'
'Give it up.'