Was any other person interested in what I may term the result of the dispute between your brother and yourself ?" "That is a difficult question to answer.

I was very careless in money matters, but it is clear that the curtailment of my rate of living from L15,000 to L5,000 per annum must make considerable difference to all connected with me." "Had you been living at the former rate ?" "Yes, since my father's death.

What annoyed Alan was the fact that I had borrowed from money-lenders." "Who else knew of your disagreement with him besides these money-lenders and his solicitors ?" "All my friends.

I used to laugh at his serious ways, when I, older and much more experienced in some respects, treated life as a tiresome joke.
But none of my friends were commissioned to murder my brother so that I might obtain the estate, Mr.Brett." "Not by you," he said thoughtfully.
He knew well that to endeavour to get Margaret to implicate her husband would merely render her an active opponent.

She loved this Italian scamp.
She was profoundly thankful that David Hume had come back to claim the hand of Helen Layton, the woman who had been the unwilling object of Capella's wayward affections.