"A blood-sucker!" and she ground her teeth in well-feigned passion.
Mrs.Dinneford sat down trembling.
"Take your money and go," said Mrs.Bray, and she lifted the bills from the floor and tossed them into her visitor's lap.

"I am served right.

It was evil work, and good never comes of evil." But Mrs.Dinneford did not stir.

To go away at enmity with this woman was, so far as she could see, to meet exposure and unutterable disgrace.
Anything but that.
"I shall leave this money, trusting still to your good offices," she said, at length, rising.

Her manner was much subdued.