Was it very naughty ?--I should have exploded my surprise! You will see, you will see to-morrow.' Nataly nodded, as required.

'Good news from the mines ?' she said.
He answered: 'Dartrey is--yes, poor fellow! Dartrey is confident, from the yield of stones, that the value of our claim counts in a number of millions.

The same with the gold.

But gold-mines are lodgeings, not homes.' 'Oh, Victor! if money...! But why did you say "poor fellow" of Dartrey Fenellan ?' 'You know how he's...' 'Yes, yes,' she said hastily.

'But has that woman been causing fresh anxiety ?' 'And Natata's chief hero on earth is not to be named a poor fellow,' said he, after a negative of the head on a subject they neither of them liked to touch.
Then he remembered that Dartrey Fenellan was actually a lucky fellow; and he would have mentioned the circumstance confided to him by Simeon, but for a downright dread of renewing his painful fit of envy.