They could well afford it. Besides, it was a historic place. It was worth whatever I could get for it.
Holland.
Parker-Jennings may be very vulgar, but he’s as shrewd a man as you’d find anywhere between Park Lane and Jerusalem.
Lady Wanley.
I haven’t the least idea what you’re talking about.
Holland.
Haven’t you? Well, then, I venture to suggest that if Mr. Parker-Jennings gave you such an enormous rent for Taverner, it was on a certain understanding. He was wise enough to find out that people can live in Cheshire all their lives and never know a soul. I don’t suppose he put it in the agreement between you, but unless I am very much mistaken he took your place only on the condition that you should get every one to call.
Lady Wanley.
[After a brief pause.] I was crippled with mortgages, and I had to send my boys to Eton.
Holland.