"And never mind that.

Come back to the question.

I say she will never go back to her aunt." He looks anxiously at Hardinge.

One can see that he would part with a good deal of honest coin of the realm, if his companion would only _not_ agree with him.
"It looks like it," said Hardinge, who is rather enjoying himself.

"By Jove! what a thing to happen to _you_, Curzon, of all men in the world.
What are you going to do, eh ?" "It isn't so much that," says the professor faintly.