Are you attending, Braden?
If you are not, I shall stop talking at once.

It is very exhausting and I haven't much breath or time to waste." "I am listening.

Go on," said Braden, suddenly sitting up in his chair and taking a long, deep breath.

The angry, antagonistic light was gone from his eyes.
"Well, the clever Mrs.Tresslyn was interested--deeply interested in my disclosures.

She did not hesitate to inform me that Anne couldn't begin to live on the income from a miserable fifty thousand, and actually laughed in my face when I reminded her of the young lady's exalted preference for love in a cottage and joy at any price.