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"Bream Mortimer!"

"Yes,slippy fronett strode to the door with a forbidding expression This, as she had justly remarked, was intolerable She remembered Bream Mortimer He was the son of the Mr Mortimer as the friend of the Mr Bennett anted Windles This visit could only have to do with the subject of Windles, and she went into the dining-room in a state of cold fury, determined to squash the Mortimer family once and for all

Breaht eyes and a sharply curving nose He looked ers a momentary shock of surprise when they saw Brea roast beef They had the feeling that he would have preferred sun-flower seeds

"Morning, Mrs Hignett"

"Please sit down"

Breah he would rather have hopped on to a perch, but he sat down He glanced about the roonett, I must have a ith you alone!"

"You are having a ith in"

"Then let me help you It is quite impossible I will never consent"

Bream Mortimer started

"Then you have heard!"

"I have heard about nothing else since Ielse Your father talked about nothing else And now," cried Mrs Hignett fiercely, "you co will alter my decision No money will induce me to let my house"

"But I didn't come about that!"

"You did not come about Windles?"

"Good Lord, no!"

"Then will you kindly tell me why you have coled a little andto flap them

"You know," he said, "I'm not a man who butts into other people's affairs"He stopped

"No?" said Mrs Hignett

Breaossips with servants"

"No?"

"I'nett was never a very patient woranted," she said curtly "I have no doubt that there are s which you do not do Let us confine ourselves to issues of definite importance What is it, if you have no objection to concentrating your attention on that for a moment, that you wish to see me about?"