When Malcolm made some damping remark, she argued the point with him in a most peremptory fashion, and was quite Elizabethan in her rebuke.
"That is the worst of talking to a lawyer," she said severely: "his legal mind takes such cut-and-dried views.

Granted that it is a speculation, it seems a promising one; and nothing venture, nothing have.

I don't know how you feel, Die, but I am quite willing to do my share." Then Dinah, who was in quite a flutter of excitement and pleasure, looked at her adviser in a timid, deprecating fashion.
"If Mr.Herrick thinks we are not imprudent, I should like to do as Cedric wishes," she replied; "though there is no need to touch your money, Betty." But Elizabeth took no notice of this remark.
"I have a proposal to make," she went on in such an animated voice that Malcolm quite started.

"Why should we not all go down and see the place?
And Mr.Strickland could come too.

Donnarton is only three hours from town; it would be a sort of picnic excursion, and I know Dinah would like it." "Bravo, Betty, what a brick you are!" exclaimed Cedric boisterously; and Malcolm observed in a low voice that it was an excellent idea.
But when they talked it over quietly they found an amendment was necessary.