[Red Money by Fergus Hume]@TWC D-Link bookRed Money CHAPTER X 17/30
"Don't forget that, Garvington." "I wish I could forget it.
Much use he has been to us." "_You_ have no cause to complain," said his sister with a meaning glance, and Garvington suddenly subsided. "Won't you say something, Noel ?" asked Lady Garvington dismally. "I don't see what there is to say," he rejoined, not lifting his eyes from the ground. "There you are wrong," remarked Agnes with a sudden flush.
"There is a very great deal to say, but this is not the place to say it.
Mr. Jarwin," she rose to her feet, looking a queenly figure in her long black robes, "you can return to town and later will receive my instructions." The lawyer looked hard at her marble face, wondering whether she would choose the lover or the money.
It was a hard choice, and a very difficult position.
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