"That is not true.

It can't be true! It is a--" "Hade holds a mortgage on everything Standish owns," resumed Brice, "and he has held that raised check over him as a prison-menace.

He--" "Stop!" demanded Claire, ablaze with righteous indignation.
"If you have such charges to make against my brother, are you too much of a coward to come to his house with me, now, and make them to his face?
Are you ?" "No," he said, without a trace of unwillingness or of bravado.
"I am not.

I'll go there, with you, gladly.

In the meantime--" "In the meantime," she caught him up, "please don't speak to me.