"More than that."
"I don't believe it. But what has all this to do with your mother's case, or my father's?"
"I won't mix things any longer. Her father is as rich as mud. I was going to ask you if you wouldn't write to Mr. Hamilton, and ask him to take the mortgage on my mother's house."
Leopold did not like the idea, but he promised to consider it.
"If I were you, Le, I should mention my father's case to him," added Stumpy.
But Leopold did not like this idea any better than the other; and they separated.