Tell me all about it, please." And she pushed her chair sideways nearer to Colville's.
John Turner bit the first joint of his thumb reflectively.

It is so rare that one can tell any one all about anything.
"Tell me first," Mrs.St.Pierre Lawrence suggested, "whether Miriam Liston's money is all safe as well." "Miriam's money never was in danger," he replied.

"Miriam is my ward; you are only my client.

There is no chance of Miriam being able to make ducks and drakes of her money." "That sounds as if I had been trying to do that with mine." "Well," admitted the banker, with a placid laugh, "if it had not been for my failure--" "Don't call it hard names," put in Dormer Colville, generously.

"It was not a failure." "Call it a temporary suspension of payment, then," agreed the banker, imperturbably.