So we shall be SO much at least," she wound up--"I mean Edward and I and the child will be--to the good." Mitchy, for an equal certainty, required but an instant's thought.

"Oh there can be no doubt about THAT.

The things about which your mind may now be at ease--!" he cheerfully exclaimed.
"It does make a great difference!" Mrs.Brook comfortably sighed.

Then in a different tone: "What dear Van will find at the end that he can't face will be, don't you see?
just this fact of appearing to have accepted a bribe.

He won't want, on the one hand--out of kindness for Nanda--to have the money suppressed; and yet he won't want to have the pecuniary question mixed up with the matter: to look in short as if he had had to be paid.