"He is fonder of money, I think, than he is of me.

And then," she added, her voice sinking to a whisper, "there is Garden Green.

Of course, I do not know much about these things, but I suppose if you really wanted to, and spent a great deal of money, you could buy your freedom, couldn't you ?" The air seemed full of jangling discords.

He closed his eyes.

It was as though a shipwreck was going on around him.