"
"I hate horses and dogs, and I won't go."
There was nothing more to be said on that point. "I hope Lady Laura
is well."
"No, she's not. How should she be well? She's anything but well.
She'll be in directly, but she thought I ought to see you first. I
suppose this wretched man is really mad."
"I am told so."
"He never was anything else since I knew him. What are we to do now?
Forster says it won't look well to ask for a separation only because
he's insane. He tried to shoot you?"
"And very nearly succeeded."
"Forster says that if we do anything, all that must come out."
"There need not be the slightest hesitation as far as I am concerned,
Lord Brentford."
"You know he keeps all her money."
"At present I suppose he couldn't give it up."
"Why not? Why shouldn't he give it up? God bless my soul! Forty
thousand pounds and all for nothing. When he married he declared that
he didn't care about it! Money was nothing to him! So she lent it to
Chiltern."
"I remember."
"But they hadn't been together a year before he asked for it.
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