A Fair Fraud — page 136: what you’re looking at

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A Fair Fraud 125 the superiority come from? I am a believer in heredity, and it’s not only the mother in this case, remember. If you had ever seen her father —’ ‘I have seen him,’ dropped incautiously from Marion’s lips, and then she regretted the words — wildly. Naylor turned round to her quickly. ‘Miss Blake, you are wonderful!’ he ex- claimed, with the light of a strong interest mingled with amusement in his keen, shrewd brown eyes. ‘How? When? Where? But I need not ask. The fellow must be hanging about down here to extract money from his wife. It is the kind of thing such a man would be certain to do, and if your cousin marries the girl his life would be made a perfect burden to him—his father-in-law would blackmail him incessantly! Am I not right in regarding such a marriage for Kenneth with abhorrence ?’ But Marion bit her lip and would not answer. At this moment the party rose from the table, and there was a. little commotion and confusion as the chairs were noisily pushed back across the wooden floor. Everybody moved towards the door. Mr Drury locked at his watch. ‘I give you half an hour, gentlemen,’ he said, ‘before GOMMGIOO <S (GO) uu