“Fosco! that’s rather a downright question.”
“I am a downright man, and I repeat it.”
“Why the devil do you look at me in that way?”
“You won’t answer me? Well, then, let us say your wife dies before the summer is out----”
“Drop it, Fosco!”
“Let us say your wife dies----”
“Drop it, I tell you!”
“In that case, you would gain twenty thousand pounds, and you would lose----”
“I should lose the chance of three thousand a year.”
“Fosco! that’s rather a downright question.”
“I am a downright man, and I repeat it.”
“Why the devil do you look at me in that way?”
“You won’t answer me? Well, then, let us say your wife dies before the summer is out----”
“Drop it, Fosco!”
“Let us say your wife dies----”
“Drop it, I tell you!”
“In that case, you would gain twenty thousand pounds, and you would lose----”
“I should lose the chance of three thousand a year.”
