As this was passing through his mind a head was pushed in through one of the doors, and immediately withdrawn. It was his Secretary. "Is that you, Miles?" he said. "Come in. I'm just going home, and came up here to see how the empty rooms would look after they were all gone. What became of your father?"
"I suppose he went away."
"I suppose he did," said Melmotte, unable to hinder himself from throwing a certain tone of scorn into his voice,--as though proclaiming the fate of his own house and the consequent running away of the rat. "It went off very well, I think."

As this was passing through his mind a head was pushed in through one of the doors.
"Is that you, Miles?" he said. "Come in. I came up here to see how the empty rooms would look after they were all gone. What became of your father?"
"I suppose he went away."
"I suppose he did," said Melmotte, unable to prevent a certain scorn entering his voice. "It went off very well, I think."
