Halidon pushed his armchair back from the fire-light, and twirled his
cigar between his fingers. "I didn't suppose there were till I began to
look into things a little more closely. You know I never had much of a
head for business, and it was chiefly with you that Paul used to go
over the figures."
"The figures--?"
"There it is, you see." He paused. "Have you any idea how much this
thing is going to cost?"
"Approximately, yes."
"And have you any idea how much we--how much Daisy's fortune amounts
to?"
"None whatever," I hastened to assert.