'I have seen Messrs.

Rigby and Rider, and your own particular ally, Rigby, will go to you at Fellside whenever you want him.' 'That is not like my being on the spot,' said his lordship, nervously, evidently much disconcerted by her ladyship's firmness, but too feeble in mind and body for a prolonged contest.
'I ought to be on the spot.

I am not without influence; I have friends, men in power.' 'Surely you are not going to appeal to friendship in order to vindicate your honour.

These charges are true or false.

If they are false your own manhood, your own rectitude, can face them and trample upon them, unaided by back-stairs influence.