You will save the family here from being turned out; you will avoid scandal; and if there should be any foundation for Mr.Blake's story, it may mean that if you don't settle you lose everything." From him Mary Grant turned to the old lady.
"Mrs.Gordon," she said, "do you advise me to pay this money ?" "My dear, I don't advise at all.

Don't consider us in the matter at all.
It is for you to say." "Then I will pay nothing.

It is a cruel, infamous, wicked slander.

These poor, ignorant people don't know what they are doing.

Sooner than pay one penny in compromise, I will walk off this station a pauper.