"He expressed none. My father gave, I believe, no reason. I never heard any," replied the Reverend Dives Marlowe.
"You may be very sure he had a reason," continued Lady Alice.
"Yes, very likely."
"And why is it not done?" persisted Lady Alice.
"I can no more say why, than you can," replied Dives.
"But why don't you see to it?" demanded she.
"See to it! Why, my dear Lady Alice, you must know I have no more power in the matter than Doocey there, or the man in the moon. The house belongs to Jekyl. Suppose you speak to him."
"You've a tongue in your head, Dives, when you've an object of your own."
Dives flushed again, and looked, for an apostle, rather forbidding.
"I have not the faintest notion, Lady Alice, to what you allude."