He has practically forged my name and has placed me in a most humiliating position.

You, I suppose, were his instigator in this matter ?" "I suppose I was," she admitted.
"What was to be his reward--his ulterior reward, I mean ?" "I promised him twenty thousand pounds," she answered, with cold fury.
"It appears that I overvalued your importance to your party.

Tony apparently did the same.

He thought that you had only to intimate your readiness to accept a peerage and the thing would be arranged.

It seems that we were wrong." "You were doubly wrong," he replied.