They are poor, are they not, this Dowager Kirton and Lady Maude ?" "Poor as Job.

Hard up, I think." "Then they are angling for the broad lands of Hartledon.

I see it all.
You have been a victim to fortune-hunting." "There you are wrong, Carr.

I can't answer for the dowager one way or the other; but Maude is the most disinterested--" "Of course: girls on the look-out for establishments always are.

Have it as you like." He spoke in tones of ridicule; and Hartledon jumped off the stile and led the way home.
That Lord Hartledon had got himself into a very serious predicament, Mr.
Carr plainly saw.