“He haunts you. You accept favours from him. You are willing enough to listen to him . I know it, as well as he does.”

“ Mr. Wrayburn has been considerate and good to me, sir,” said Lizzie, proudly, “in connection with the death and with the memory of my poor father.”

“No doubt. He is of course a very considerate and a very good man, Mr. Eugene Wrayburn.”

“He is nothing to you, I think,” said Lizzie, with an indignation she could not repress.

“Oh yes, he is. There you mistake. He is much to me.”

“What can he be to you?”