BASIL While Jennings was thus working at the case, and hoping to bring it to a successful issue, Cuthbert was resting in the happy belief that no further steps were being taken.

The detective had appeared so despondent when Mallow called with Caranby that the former thought with some show of reason that he meant what he said.

Had he known that Jennings was still active he would have been much disturbed.
Agreeably to Cuthbert's suggestion, Juliet had offered the money of Miss Loach to her mother.

But Mrs.Octagon refused to be bribed--as she put it--into consenting to the match.

In the presence of Mallow himself, she expressed the greatest detestation for him and for his uncle, and told Juliet she would never acknowledge her as a daughter if she married the young man.