"Where are the other things, Hyde?"
"There's only that, sir."
The justice looked up the table and down the table; never in his whole life had he felt ashamed of his hospitality until now. But by this time the curious aspect of affairs had penetrated to Richard.
"Is this all you have to give us for dinner?" he asked of Sinnett, in his deep, stern tones; and he did not think it necessary to lower his voice.
"Yes, sir."
"This! That piece of beef?"
"There's nothing else, sir."
"By whose management?--by whose fault? Speak, woman."
"My lady gave the orders, sir."
Richard turned his dark face on my lady, as if demanding whether Sinnett was not telling a lie; and Mr. Thornycroft began to cut the beef as fast as he could cut it.