16/32 I did not attend much to Mr.Crawley's explanations at the time." "You were unable to attend to him then," said John; "but now, I think, you should understand the exact position of affairs. Surely my cousins must have talked it over ?" "Isabella and Georgina never talk business before me. You forget I am still a child in their eyes," she said, smiling. "I gathered that they were disappointed poor Timothy had left them nothing, and that they thought I had too much; that is all." "Their way of looking at it is scarcely in accordance with justice," said John, shrugging his shoulders. |