His anger was over by that time.

"I've been clean done among them," he said to Mark, laughing; "but it does not signify; a man must pay for his experience.

Of course, Sowerby thinks it all right; I am bound to suppose so." And then there had been some further delay as to the amount, and part of the money had been paid to a third person, and a bill had been given, and Heaven and the Jews only know how much money Lord Lufton had paid in all; and now it was ended by his handing over to some wretched villain of a money-dealer, on behalf of Mr.Sowerby, the enormous sum of five thousand pounds, which had been deducted from the means of his mother, Lady Lufton! Mark, as he thought of all this, could not but feel a certain animosity against Mr.Sowerby--could not but suspect that he was a bad man.

Nay, must he not have known that he was very bad?
And yet he continued walking with him through the duke's grounds, still talking about Lord Lufton's affairs, and still listening with interest to what Sowerby told him of his own.

"No man was ever robbed as I have been," said he.