[Jeanne of the Marshes by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookJeanne of the Marshes CHAPTER XIX 13/17
If you run up any more debts, you must pay them yourself.
I am master here and I intend to remain so." Cecil was suddenly pale. "Do you mean," he asked, "that you intend to remain here now ?" Andrew hesitated. "Your guests are leaving," he said.
"Why not ?" "But they may not go until to-morrow or the next day," Cecil said.
"I cannot turn them out." Andrew stood for a moment looking thoughtfully at the door. "They cannot stay more than a day," he said, "if Major Forrest is really their friend.
In any case, I shall not return until they are gone." Cecil's face cleared a little, but he was still perplexed. "They had just promised," he said, "to stay another week." "If you wish to entertain the Princess and Miss Le Mesurier," Andrew said, "and they are willing to stop after what has passed, I have nothing, of course, to say against it.
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