8/16 "So disinterested, too." "What do you mean? Possibly you have forgotten a little event that happened at Bolsover ?" "I have not forgotten it." "I dare say you have not thought it worth while to mention it to your employer, Mr Rimbolt." "I have not mentioned it." "Quite so. That is what I mean when I say it is disinterested in you to come and make friends with me." "That is false," said Jeffreys glowing. "I neither want nor expect that." "Kind again. At the same time you are not particularly anxious that people here should hear the tragical history of young Forrester ?" "For heaven's sake be silent, Scarfe!" said Jeffreys, to whom the mention of the name, after so many months, came like a blow. |