BOOK THE FIRST: THE CUP AND THE LIP
Chapter 11: Podsnappery (continued)
'I have attended to what you have already said, have I not? What
else have I been doing all to-night.'
'Attend, I tell you,' (in a raised voice) 'to what I am going to say.
Keep close to that idiot girl. Keep her under your thumb. You
have her fast, and you are not to let her go. Do you hear?'
'I hear you.'
'I foresee there is money to be made out of this, besides taking that
fellow down a peg. We owe each other money, you know.'
Mrs Lammle winced a little at the reminder, but only enough to
shake her scents and essences anew into the atmosphere of the
little carriage, as she settled herself afresh in her own dark corner.
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