Should you be horrified ?" "No; but astonished." "Very well.

The fact of the matter is then," said Warburton, with an uneasy smile, "that for a couple of years I _have_ been doing that.

It came about in this way--" He related Godfrey Sherwood's reckless proceedings, and the circumstances which had decided him to take a shop.

No exclamation escaped the listener; she walked with eyes downcast, and, when her brother ceased, looked at him very gently, affectionately.
"It was brave of you, Will," she said.
"Well, I saw no other way of making good the loss; but now I am sick of living a double life--_that_ has really been the worst part of it, all along.

What I want to ask you, is--would it be wise or not to tell mother?
Would it worry and distress her?
As for the money, you see there's nothing to worry about; the shop will yield a sufficient income, though not as much as we hoped from Applegarth's; but of course I shall have to go on behind the counter." He broke off, laughing, and Jane smiled, though with a line of trouble on her brow.
"That won't do," she said, with quiet decision.
"Oh, I'm getting used to it." "No, no, Will, it won't do.