There he soon found himself in the attorney's room.

'Are you aware of what they are doing at the Grange ?' he asked, in a voice which was not so guarded as it should have been on such an occasion.

Anger and the quickness of his walk had combined to make him short of breath, and he asked the question with that flurried, hasty manner which is common to angry people who are hot rather than malicious in their angers.
'I don't think I am,' said the attorney.

'But if I were, I doubt whether I should just at present be willing to discuss their doings with you.' 'My wife has gone there on a visit.' 'I am glad to hear it.

It is the best thing that my sister could do.' 'And now it seems some difficulty is made about her returning.' That I think very likely.