"I want to talk to you.
What will you have ?--some wine ?" "Not anything," replied Lionel.

"Tynn said you wished to see me for something particular." "And so I do.

You must take the management of the estate until Fred's at home." The words grated on his ear, and his brow knit itself into lines.

But he answered calmly-- "I cannot do that, Mrs.Verner." "Then what can I do ?" she asked.

"Here's all this great estate, nobody to see after it, nobody to take it in charge! I'm sure I have no more right to be teased over it than you have, Lionel." "It is your son's." "I asked you not to leave Verner's Pride.