Do you understand what I say ?" "Understand, Sir Bale?
I do, sir--quite." "I daresay quite" he repeated with an angry sneer.

"Here, sir, is an odd coincidence: you want a hundred pounds, and you can't earn it, and you can't borrow it--there's another way, it seems--but I have got it--a Bank-of-England note of L100--locked up in that desk;" and he poked the end of his cane against the brass lock of it viciously.

"There it is, and there are the papers you work at; and there are two keys--I've got one and you have the other--and devil another key in or out of the house has any one living.

Well, do you begin to see?
Don't mind.

I don't want any d----d lying about it." Feltram was indeed beginning to see that he was suspected of something very bad, but exactly what, he was not yet sure; and being a man of that unhappy temperament which shrinks from suspicion, as others do from detection, he looked very much put out indeed.
"Ha, ha! I think we do begin to see," said Sir Bale savagely.