If there is anything to be known, it's much better to have it known." "But there is nothing to be known." "Then tell him nothing;--but still tell it to him.

After that you must trust to her.

I don't suppose she'd go off with you." "I'm sure she wouldn't." "But she's as obstinate as a mule.

She'll get the better of him if you really mean it." He assured her that he really did mean it, and determined that he would take her advice as to seeing, or endeavouring to see, Mr.Wharton once again.

But before doing so he thought it to be expedient to put his house into order, so that he might be able to make a statement of his affairs if asked to do so.
Whether they were flourishing or the reverse, it might be necessary that he should have to speak of them,--with, at any rate, apparent candour.
The reader may, perhaps, remember that in the month of April Ferdinand Lopez had managed to extract a certain signature from his unfortunate city friend, Sexty Parker, which made that gentleman responsible for the payment of a considerable sum of money before the end of July.