She has refused any money accruing to her through her father, or to be brought into contact with any one who could tell her about him." "The fact," Francis remarked drily, "is scarcely to her credit.

Monty may have been disreputable enough, I've no doubt he was; but his going away and staying there all these years was a piece of noble unselfishness." "Monty has been hardly used in some ways," Trent said.

"I've done my best by him, though." "That," Francis said coldly, "is a matter of opinion." "I know very well," Trent answered, "what yours is.

You are welcome to it.

You can blackguard me all round London if you like in a week--but I want a week's grace." "Why should I grant it you ?" Trent shrugged his shoulders.
"I won't threaten," he said, "and I won't offer to bribe you, but I've got to have that week's grace.