"Not any, I fear."
"Well, well; better perhaps that the son should think it. You were not in Liverpool when it happened?"
"I was in Germany. The account of it was sent to me."
"By whom?—if I may ask it."
"By Mrs. Paradyne."
"She does not believe her husband to have been innocent?"
"Oh, no."
"Has Mrs. Paradyne enough to live upon?" pursued the doctor, whose interest in the affair had been growing.
"Her income is, I believe, very small indeed."
"Then how does she give the boy this expensive education?"