He must hear the news, and it would be
better that he should hear it from her than from others. This was Sunday,
and she thought he would be sure to know the truth on the following
Monday. In this she was right: for on the Monday old Lady Linlithgow saw
it stated in the newspapers that an arrest had been made. "I have
something to tell you," she said, as soon as she had succeeded in finding
herself alone with him.
"Anything about the diamonds?"
"Well, no; not exactly about the diamonds; though perhaps it is. But
first, Frank, I want to say something else to you."
"Not about the diamonds?"
"Oh no; not at all. It is this. You must let me lend you that five hundred
pounds you want."
"Indeed, you shall do no such thing. I should not have mentioned it to you
if I had not thought that you were one of the insolvent yourself. You were
in debt yourself when we last talked about money."
"So I am; and that horrid woman, Mrs. Carbuncle, has made me lend her one
hundred and fifty pounds. But it is so different with you, Frank."
"Yes; my needs are greater than hers."
"What is she to me? while you are everything! Things can't be so bad with
me but what I can raise five hundred pounds.
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