"A year and a half ago you wanted to help me to help Mr.Vanderbank." "Well," said Mitchy, "you can't quite say I haven't." "But your ideas of help are of a splendour--!" "Oh I've told you about my ideas." Mitchy was almost apologetic.

Mr.
Longdon had a pause.

"I suppose I'm not indiscreet then in recognising your marriage as one of them.

And that, with a responsibility so great already assumed, you appear fairly eager for another--!" "Makes me out a kind of monster of benevolence ?" Mitchy looked at it with a flushed face.

"The two responsibilities are very much one and the same.