Hilary kept bustling aimlessly about as he spoke these vague phrases, and he now tried to have her go out of the room before him; but she dropped into a chair, and he had to stay.
"I want you to tell me, Mr. Hilary, whether there is the slightest foundation for what the papers say this morning?"
"How, foundation? My dear child—"
"Has there been any trouble between my father and the company?"
"Well—well, there are always questions arising."
"Is there any question of my father's accounts—his honesty?"
"People question everything nowadays, when there is so much—want of confidence in business. There have to be investigations, from time to time."
"And has there been any reason to suspect my father? Does any one suspect him?"
Hilary looked round the room with a roving eye, that he could not bring to bear upon the girl's face. "Why, I suppose that some of us—some of the directors—have had doubts—"
"Have you?"