"Only I see her here--though on his wish of course--handling things quite as if they were her own and paying him a visit without, apparently, any calculable end.

What's that on HIS part but a pledge ?" Oh Mitchy could show off-hand that he knew what it was.

"It's a pledge, quite as much, to you.

He shows you the whole thing.

He likes you not a whit less than he likes her." "Oh thunder!" Van impatiently sighed.
"It's as 'rum' as you please, but there it is," said the inexorable Mitchy.
"Then does he think I'll do it for THIS ?" "For 'this' ?" "For the place, the whole thing, as you call it, that he shows me." Mitchy had a short silence that might have represented a change of colour.