No funds--and other reasons--meaning--a MAN.

She scented instantly another of Biddy's tempestuous love-affairs.

Had it been merely a question of lack of money with inclination goading, she felt pretty certain that Lady Bridget would have contrived to beg, borrow or steal--on a hazardous promissory note, after the happy-go-lucky financial morals of that section of society to which by birth she belonged.

Or, failing these means, that she would have threatened some mad enterprise and so have frightened her aunt Eliza Countess of Gaverick into writing a cheque for three figures.

Of course, less would have been of no account.
Mrs Gildea opened the two envelopes and sorted the pages in order of their dates.