"I think I might, perhaps, better refer you to your uncle."
"No, sir; Mr. Tombe is not my uncle's lawyer. My uncle never heard his name, unless he heard of it from you."
"But it was by agreement with your uncle that I commissioned Mr. Tombe to raise for you the money you were desirous of borrowing from your cousin. We thought it better that her fortune should not be for the moment disturbed."
"But what had you to do with it? Why should you have done it? In the first place, I don't believe your story; it is altogether improbable. But why should he come to you of all men to raise money on his daughter's behalf?"

"I might, perhaps, better refer you to your uncle."
"No, sir; Mr. Tombe is not my uncle's lawyer."
"But it was by agreement with your uncle that I commissioned Mr. Tombe to raise the money you wished to borrow from your cousin. We thought it better that her fortune should not be for the moment disturbed."
"But what had you to do with it? Why should you have done it? In the first place, I don't believe it; it is altogether improbable. But why should he come to you of all men to raise money on his daughter's behalf?"
