Burton sank forward in his chair, his head fell into his hands.
"What I want to know," Ellen continued, in a tone of some excitement, "is--what is there coming to us for this?
I never did give you credit, Alfred--not in these days, at any rate--for so much common sense.

I see they have made you a director.

If there's anything in those rotten beans of yours, you've more in your head than I thought, to be trying to make a bit of use of them.

What are you getting out of it ?" There was a dead silence.

Mr.Waddington had the appearance of a man who has received a shock.