It was possible that Thatcher had bought her stock or that she had made him bid for it.

She had a reputation for driving hard bargains, and he judged from her manner that her conference with Thatcher, whatever its nature, had not been unsatisfactory.

He recalled with exasperation his wife's displeasure over this whole affair; it was incumbent upon him not only to reestablish himself with Mrs.Owen, but to do it in a way to satisfy Mrs.Bassett.
"You needn't worry about that lawsuit, Morton; there ain't going to be any lawsuit." She gave this time to "soak in," as she would have expressed it, and then concluded:-- "It's all off; I persuaded Edward to drop the suit.

The case will be dismissed in the morning." "Dismissed?
How dismissed, Aunt Sally ?" "Just dismissed; that's all there is of it.

I went to see Fitch, too, and gave him a piece of my mind.