But that his father should sit there in his chair on his entrance, not even rising to greet him, and should refer at once to Mr.Bolton and that business arrangement, as though that, and that alone, need now be discussed, did seem to him to be almost cruel.

Of all that his father had suffered in constraining himself to this conduct, he understood nothing.

'Mr.Bolton made himself very plain, sir.' 'He would be sure to do so.

He is a man of business and intelligent.

But as to the terms proposed, were they what you had expected ?' 'Quite as good as I had expected.' 'Whether good or bad, of course you will understand that I have had nothing to do with them.