“You know there is a mortgage on Woodbrook?”
“I knew there was one, and to know that, is to conclude there is one still. I never heard of a mortgage being paid off in Ireland; such a thing might have happened, but I do not think it likely.”
“The Woodbrook mortgage has not been paid at all events,” replied Grace; “but, so far as I can gather, it has changed hands.”
“In whose hand is it now, then?”
“In Mr. Brady’s.”
“What! the man Nettie ran away with?”
“The same.”
“Where on earth did he get enough money to enable him to advance such a sum?”
“I have not the faintest idea.”
“What could have induced him to do a thing of the kind?”