"You speak bitterly—but then, you've competed with that sort."
"My unhappy infant! You'd at least have found a barren sort of dignity in actual competition. As it is——"
"You got her by a trick, I've heard, from the man who took her away from you when she'd found you out."
"Tell that to your grandmother—it may help you out of some money."
"Stop it, governor! I'll quit if you will. Come!" He spoke with a drop of the voice, and lifted a hand in appeal.
"When you like—I've wasted no words."
"It's true, all you've said? Grandmother knows?"
"Thirty seconds later and I'd have had to bless the pair."
"And now?"
"It's safe for the present. She forgot. She'll remember to-morrow. I'd trust him back there then. She'd see only an obscene excrescence."