Has she lied in telling me that she was never informed of Mary's place of abode ?" I remembered that Mary had never communicated with her stepmother after the separation, and could therefore assure him that the woman had spoken the truth.
He paused for a moment after that, and sighed.

Then he took out a pocket-book, and said: "I have already arranged for the payment of any legal expenses that may have been incurred by the trial, but I have still to reimburse you for the funeral charges which you so generously defrayed.

Excuse my speaking bluntly on this subject; I am accustomed to look on all matters where money is concerned purely as matters of business." I saw that he was taking several bank-notes out of the pocket-book, and stopped him.
"I will gratefully receive back the little money I actually paid, sir, because I am not well off, and it would be an ungracious act of pride in me to refuse it from you," I said; "but I see you handling bank-notes, any one of which is far beyond the amount you have to repay me.

Pray put them back, sir.

What I did for your poor lost sister I did from my love and fondness for her.