"How very suspicious you are," said Lupin, "It's quite distressing."
"Is it? Ho! ho! Well, I'll have my drop and then I will go. If you are civil to me whenever I choose to come it will be better for you; but I am not the sort of person to stand any nonsense, I can assure you."
"No, Jane, I never said you were," replied Lupin; "and I hope that to-night will see the beginning as it were of a kind of reconciliation and better feeling between us. I am sure I always thought of you with kindness."
By this time they were in the room, and the lady half drew the knife she had before exhibited from the bosom of her dress, as she said—
"Look at this—look at this! I distrust you all the more when you talk as you do now, and I tell you that if I have any of your nonsense, I will pretty soon settle you. You mean something, I know, by the twinkle of your eye. I have watched you before, and I know you."
"Now, really, this is too bad," said Lupin, as he wiped his face with a remarkably old handkerchief; "this is too bad, Jane. If I am kind and civil to you, that don't suit; and if I am rough and rather stern, you fly out at that too. What am I to do? Will nothing please you?"
"Bah!" said Jane. "Hold your nonsence. How much money am I to have when I have finished the brandy? That is the question now."
"Will three guineas be enough, Jane, just for the present occasion?"
"No, I must have five, or if you don't produce them, I'll make you."
"You shall have them, Jane. You see how complying I am to you. But won't you give me a drop of the brandy? You don't mean to take it all?"