“Which she is likely to do?”
“Which she is not in the least likely to do----”
“Yes?”
“Why, then I get her twenty thousand pounds.”
“Paid down?”
“Paid down.”
They were silent once more. As their voices ceased Madame Fosco’s shadow darkened the blind again. Instead of passing this time, it remained, for a moment, quite still. I saw her fingers steal round the corner of the blind, and draw it on one side. The dim white outline of her face,
“Which she is likely to do?”
“Which she is not in the least likely to do----”
“Yes?”
“Why, then I get her twenty thousand pounds.”
“Paid down?”
“Paid down.”
They were silent once more. As their voices ceased Madame Fosco’s shadow darkened the blind again. Instead of passing this time, it remained, for a moment, quite still. I saw her fingers steal round the corner of the blind, and draw it on one side. The dim white outline of her face,
