"Yes."
"Well, Joseph Frowenfeld,--"
The insinuation conveyed in the doctor's manner was very trying, but Joseph merely reddened.
"Purely business, I suppose," presently said the doctor, with a ghastly ironical smile. "Does the arrangem'--" his utterance failed him--"does it end there?"
"It ends there."
"And you don't see that it ought either not to have begun, or else ought not to have ended there?"
Frowenfeld blushed angrily. The doctor asked:
"And who takes care of Aurora's money?"
"Herself."
"Exclusively?"