It is not my fault if the subject has been dropped.

You must remember that until yesterday you have been absent on a tour of inspection and could not be applied to before." Carroll cast a cold glance at Prince, and then threw himself into a chair, with his overcoat still on and his long military boots crossed before the fire.

Sitting there in profile Prince could not but notice that he looked older and sterner than at their last interview, and his cheeks were thinned as if by something more than active service.
"When you were here last summer," began Prince, leaning forward over his desk, "you brought me a piece of news that astounded me, as it did many others.

It was the assignment of Dr.West's property to Mrs.
Saltonstall.

That was something there was no gainsaying; it was a purely business affair, and involved nobody's rights but the assignor.
But this was followed, a day or two after, by the announcement of the Doctor's will, making the same lady the absolute and sole inheritor of the same property.