That, of course, must depend upon their difficulties with Applegarth remaining strictly private; and even so, could Mr.Turnbull's scent for disaster be successfully reckoned with?
"Don't do anything hastily, Warburton, I beg of you," continued the other.

"Things are never so bad as they look at first sight.

Wait till I have seen--you know who.

I might even be able to--but it's better not to promise.

Wait a day or two, at all events." And this Warburton resolved to do; for, if the worst came to the worst, he had some three hundred pounds of his own still in the bank, and so could assure, for two years at all events, the income of which his mother and Jane had absolute need.