"Oblige me by coming here for a moment," he said.
Mr.Delamayn rose and complied with the request.

Mr.Vanborough addressed himself to Lady Jane.
"I beg to refer you to my man of business.

_He_ is not interested in deceiving you." "Am I required simply to speak to the fact ?" asked Mr.Delamayn.

"I decline to do more." "You are not wanted to do more." Listening intently to that interchange of question and answer, Mrs.
Vanborough advanced a step in silence.

The high courage that had sustained her against outrage which had openly declared itself shrank under the sense of something coming which she had not foreseen.