'How am I to do it, then ?' he added, suddenly remembering his debt to Evan.
Mrs.Shorne instructed him how to do it quietly, and without fear of scandal.

The miserable champion replied that it was very well for her to tell him to say this and that, but--and she thought him demented--he must, previous to addressing Harrington in those terms, have money.
'Money!' echoed the lady.

'Money!' 'Yes, money!' he iterated doggedly, and she learnt that he had borrowed a sum of Harrington, and the amount of the sum.
It was a disastrous plight, for Mrs.Shorne was penniless.
She cited Ferdinand Laxley as a likely lender.
'Oh, I'm deep with him already,' said Harry, in apparent dejection.
'How dreadful are these everlasting borrowings of yours!' exclaimed his aunt, unaware of a trifling incongruity in her sentiments.

'You must speak to him without--pay him by-and-by.

We must scrape the money together.