Your sister is a wonderful person," he continued, dropping his voice.

"I don't know why, but she made me talk as no one else has ever made me talk before.

I simply had to tell her things.

Then, when I had finished, she showed me her bankbooks and suggested that she should invest some of her money in the Rise." "But do you mean to tell me," Beatrice persisted, "that it is her money upon which you are relying for this purchase ?" Tavernake nodded.
"You see," he explained, "Mr.Dowling dropped upon us before I was prepared.

As soon as he found out, he went to the owners of the estate and made them a bid for it.