So do all the people here.
Lulu has told that I'm an heiress; now don't you upset it all with your squeamishness about the truth.

Nobody will ask you how much I'm worth, so you won't be compelled to a lie direct.

Just keep your tongue between your teeth, and leave the rest to me.

Will you ?" There was, as usual, a feeble remonstrance, and then the weak woman yielded so far as promising to keep silent was concerned.
Meantime the doctor sat in his own room nearby, thinking of 'Lina Worthington, and wishing she were a little more refined.
"Where does she get that coarseness ?" he thought.

"Not from her mother, certainly.