So the honest deception went on.

Will was supposed to be managing a London branch of the Applegarth business.
Great expenditure on advertising had to account for the smallness of the dividend at first.

No one less likely than the ladies at The Haws to make trouble in such a matter.

They had what sufficed to them, and were content with it.

Thinking over this in shame-faced solitude, Warburton felt a glow of proud thankfulness that his mother and sister were so unlike the vulgar average of mankind--that rapacious multitude, whom nothing animates but a chance of gain, with whom nothing weighs but a commercial argument.