"I hope you don't forget," she remarked with superiority, "that we don't ask her." "YOU don't ?" Edward gloomed.
"Never.

But I trust her." "Yes," he mused afresh, "one must trust one's child.

Does Van ?" he then enquired.
"Does he trust her ?" "Does he know anything of the general figure ?" She hesitated.

"Everything.

It's high." "He has told you so ?" Mrs.Brook, supremely impatient now, seemed to demur even to the question.