You hadn't told him so before, and you tell him so now.

Ay, ay! That's right! You know I stood between you and his father so long, that it seems as if death had made no difference, and I was still standing between you.

So I will, and so in fairness I require to have that plainly put forward.

Arthur, you please to hear that you have no right to mistrust your father, and have no ground to go upon.' He put his hands to the back of the wheeled chair, and muttering to himself, slowly wheeled his mistress back to her cabinet.

'Now,' he resumed, standing behind her: 'in case I should go away leaving things half done, and so should be wanted again when you come to the other half and get into one of your flights, has Arthur told you what he means to do about the business ?' 'He has relinquished it.' 'In favour of nobody, I suppose ?' Mrs Clennam glanced at her son, leaning against one of the windows.
He observed the look and said, 'To my mother, of course.