And very soon I found out a great deal.

I didn't have to go to the man whose address Mr.
Bentley gave me.

Madame Vavasour _is_ a horrid woman! This is not the first young man she's fleeced--by a long way.

There was a man--younger than Mr.Dunstable, a boy of nineteen--three years ago.

She got him to promise to marry her; and the parents came down, and paid her enormously to let him go.