That is why I am here.

The people that spend your Jean Jacques' money will be spending mine too, if I don't take care." M.Fille noted the hard look which now settled in M.Mornay's face, and it disturbed him.

He rose and leaned over the table towards his visitor anxiously.
"Tell me, if you please, monsieur, is there any real and immediate danger of the financial collapse of Jean Jacques ?" The other regarded M.Fille with a look of consideration.

He liked this Clerk of the Court, but he liked Jean Jacques for the matter of that, and away now from the big financial arena where he usually worked, his natural instincts had play.

He had come to St.Saviour's with a bigger thing in his mind than Jean Jacques and his affairs; he had come on the matter of a railway, and had taken Jean Jacques on the way, as it were.
The scheme for the railway looked very promising to him, and he was in good humour; so that all he said about Jean Jacques was free from that general irritation of spirit which has sacrificed many a small man on a big man's altar.