"It may help you to understand what you term my injustice to my son." "Are these matters wherewith to importune a stranger--a guest ?" "I am proposing to say in your presence what I was about to say in your absence," said he, without answering her question.

"Be seated, ma'am." She sniffed, closed her fan with a clatter, and sat down.

Mr.Caryll resumed his long chair, and his lordship took the stool.
"I am told," the latter resumed presently, recapitulating in part for her ladyship's better understanding, "that his Grace of Wharton is intending to reopen the South Sea scandal, as soon as he can find evidence that I was one of those who profited by the company's charter." "Profited ?" she echoed, between scorn and bitter amusement.

"Profited, did ye say?
I think your dotage is surely upon you--you that have sunk nigh all your fortune and all that you had with me in this thieving venture--d'ye talk of profits ?" "At the commencement I did profit, as did many others.

Had I been content with my gains, had I been less of a trusting fool, it had been well.