"Why I want to see him — and so do you, Mr. Haye. Now Mr. Haye, won't you? — Though I don't know but Elizabeth would be the best one to ask him."
"Why?" dryly said the master of the house.
"I guess he'd be more likely to come."
"If I thought so, and it were my part to do it, I certainly should ask him," said Elizabeth. "There isn't any person so pleasant as he to take his place, among all that come here."
"You were glad of what Mr. Satterthwaite told us last night weren't you?" said Rose with a sinister smile.
"Very glad!"
"Did you ever hear Mr. Satterthwaite go on so about anybody? One would have thought Mr. Landholm was his own brother. I wonder if that was for your sake, Lizzie?"
"I presume it was for his own sake," said Elizabeth. "I should think anybody who had the privilege of being Mr. Landholm's friend, would know how to value it."
"You would value it, for instance, I suppose?"
"I have no doubt I should."