Any way, I am acting as his agent.

I'm quite above board, Mr.Caldigate, and in what I say I mean to stick to my own business and not go beyond it.

Twenty thousand pounds is what we ask,--so that we and you may share the loss.
You agree to that ?' 'I should have agreed to it two months since,' said Caldigate, fearing that he might be caught in a trap,--anxious to do nothing mean, unfair, or contrary to the law,--craving in his heart after the bold, upright conduct of a thoroughly honourable English gentleman, and yet desirous also to use, if it might be used, the instrumentality of this man.
'And why not now?
You see,' said Bollum, becoming a little more confidential, 'how difficult it is for me to speak.

Things ain't altered.

You've got the money.