She lowered her terms again with the headlong hurry of terror.

"You shall have it, Sir, at your own price," said this entirely shameless and perfectly respectable woman.
The bargain having been closed under these circumstances, the landlady's daughter knocked at the door.

"I took your letter myself, sir," she said modestly; "and here is the answer." (She had seen Miss Henley, and did not think much of her.) Mountjoy offered the expression of his thanks, in words never to be forgotten by a sensitive young person, and opened his letter.

It was short enough to be read in a moment; but it was evidently a favourable reply.

He took his hat in a hurry, and asked to be shown the way to Mr.Vimpany's house..