I received no money.

I had nothing to do with the money further than as I might draw my own conclusions in regard to the subsequent payment of the campaign debt." Mrs.Lee listened to all this with intense interest.

Not until this moment had she really felt as though she had got to the heart of politics, so that she could, like a physician with his stethoscope, measure the organic disease.

Now at last she knew why the pulse beat with such unhealthy irregularity, and why men felt an anxiety which they could not or would not explain.

Her interest in the disease overcame her disgust at the foulness of the revelation.