She was commissioned to offer half the price for the glass on her father's part; more he would not pay.

Tinman and Phippun sat with her in Crickledon's cottage, and Mrs.Crickledon brought down two messages from her invalid, each positive, to the effect that he would fight with all the arms of English law rather than yield his point.
Tinman declared it to be quite out of the question that he should pay a penny.

Phippun vowed that from one or the other of them he would have the money.
Annette naturally was in deep distress, and Fellingham postponed the discussion to the morrow.
Even after such a taste of Tinman as that, Annette could not be induced to join in deriding him privately.

She looked pained by Mr.Fellingham's cruel jests.

It was monstrous, Fellingham considered, that he should draw on himself a second reprimand from Van Diemen Smith, while they were consulting in entire agreement upon the case of the chiwal-glass.
"I must tell you this, mister sir," said Van Diemen, "I like you, but I'll be straightforward and truthful, or I'm not worthy the name of Englishman; and I do like you, or I should n't have given you leave to come down here after us two.