I'll make it all right for you; I'll make you a cheque for a hundred pounds now, and then when your husband begins to build I'll give him some more." The woman gasped for breath and turned pale.

She was frightened.

It really seemed as if her ladyship must have lost her wits a little.

She could not mean this.

The vicaress turned pale also.
"Lady Anstruthers," she said, "Lady Anstruthers, it--it is too much.