'Forbear!' said Mirelle; 'never recur to, nor allude to that again. I have forgotten it—that is, I try, I pray to forget it. Yes, I entreat you to take Orange.'
'There are several objections,' said Trecarrel. 'In the first place, I cannot afford it.'
'Orange has five thousand pounds.'
'Has she no more?'
'Not that I am aware of.'
'What puzzles me is, how did she come by the money? I thought everything had gone when that scamp Sampson bolted.'
'That is easily explained. John Herring gave her the money.'
'He gave Orange five thousand pounds! This is incredible. What claim had she on him?'
'She had been kind to me. I asked him to do it.'
'An exemplary husband! But how the deuce did he come by so much money? I know what Welltown is worth. He cannot have saved it—men in the army spend, they do not save; he cannot have made it. He did not inherit it. Whence did it come?'