"Only that he was the man who put up the money."
"Yes; he was."
"Why didn't you tell me that this morning?"
"I suppose because there was so much else to say. We should have come
round to it in time. I did tell you everything but his name."
"And the circumstances."
"How do you mean--the circumstances?"
"I got the impression from you this morning that it was some millionaire
Johnny who'd come to your father's aid by advancing the sum in the
ordinary way of business. I didn't understand that it was a
comparatively poor chap who was cleaning himself out to come to yours."
In wording his phrase he purposely went beyond the warrant, in order to
rouse her to denial, or perhaps to indignation. But she said only:
"Did Drusilla say it was to come to my aid?"
"She didn't say it--exactly. I gathered that it was what she thought."