“You mean that Miss Anvoy has talked to you? She has told me so herself,” he said.
“It was not to tell you so that I wanted to see you,” I replied; “for it seemed to me that such a communication would rest wholly with herself. If, however, she did speak to you of our conversation, she probably told you I was discouraging.”
“Discouraging?”
“On the subject of a present application of the Coxon Fund.”
“To the case of Mr. Saltram? My dear fellow, I don’t know what you call discouraging!” Gravener exclaimed.
“Well, I thought I was, and I thought she thought I was.”
“I believe she did, but such a thing is measured by the effect. She’s not discouraged.”
“That’s her own affair. The reason I asked you to see me was that it appeared to me I ought to tell you frankly that decidedly I can’t und
