"I have come here from Mr. Tombe's office in the City," said Vavasor, "to ask you of what nature has been the interference which you have taken in my money matters?"
This was a question which Mr. Grey could not answer very quickly. In the first place it was altogether unexpected; in the next place he did not know what Mr. Tombe had told, and what he had not told; and then, before he replied, he must think how much of the truth he was bound to tell in answer to a question so put to him.
"Do you say that you have come from Mr. Tombe?" he asked.
"I think you heard me say so. I have come here direct from Mr. Tombe's chambers. He is your lawyer, I believe?"
"He is so."

"I have come here from Mr. Tombe's office in the City," said Vavasor, "to ask you how you have been interfering in my money matters?"
Mr. Grey could not answer this unexpected question very quickly. He did not know what Mr. Tombe had said; and he needed to consider how much of the truth he was bound to tell in answer.
"Do you say that you have come from Mr. Tombe?" he asked.
"You heard me say so. I have come here direct from his chambers. He is your lawyer, I believe?"
"He is."
