I shall also promise to pay twenty per cent.

interest for two years from date.

Two years, do you understand?
If anything should happen to him before the two years are up, I'd still owe the money to his estate, wouldn't I?
You can't deny that--" "Stop! Not another word, sir! Am I to believe that I have a son who is entirely devoid of principle?
Are you so lacking in pride that--" "It depends entirely on how you spell the word, princi_pal_ or with a _ple_.

I am entirely devoid of the one ending in pal, and I don't see what pride has to do with it anyway.

Ask Anne.