When he persuaded poor Sexty Parker to hazard his all, knowing well that he induced the unfortunate man to believe what was false, and to trust what was utterly untrustworthy, he did not himself think that he was going beyond the lines of fair enterprise.
Now, in his marriage, he had in truth joined himself to real wealth.
Could he only command at once that which he thought ought to be his wife's share of the lawyer's money, he did not doubt but that he could make a rapid fortune.

It would not do for him to seem to be desirous of the money a day before the time;--but, when the time should come, would not his wife help him in his great career?
But before she could do so she must be made to understand something of the nature of that career, and of the need of such aid.
Of course there arose the question where they should live.

But he was ready with an immediate answer to this question.

He had been to look at a flat,--a set of rooms,--in the Belgrave Mansions, in Pimlico, or Belgravia you ought more probably to call it.

He proposed to take them furnished till they could look about at their leisure and get a house that should suit them.