'If you want to buy me,I should say, let me set my own price.'
'Thank you. Even my extravagance does not desire such waste. But I want to buy off that nephew of Mme. Lasalle's. Andbeing worth nothinghow much is he worth? I believe I ought to have offered a definite sum,' she went on, half to herself.
Dane roused up fully now, and demanded to know what she was talking about?
'He is going to Lisbon,' said Hazel, too engrossed to be very methodical in her details. 'And Josephine Charteris means to go with him. I can do nothing at all with _her_and I must do something with him.'
'Not with Stuart Nightingaleif that is what you mean.'
'I must.'
'I can find a substitute for that "must." What do you want to do,
Wych?'
'Put them both under bonds. But I have tried, and failed.'
'You have tried Josephine? Do you say that she wants to go with him?'
'Says she will go. Will not even take diamonds insteadand they were her price,' said Wych Hazel with sorrowful disgust. 'So then I tried him.'