"You here still, Mr. Pendennis!" she
exclaims. She knew I was there. Had not she changed her dress in order to
receive me?
"I have to speak to you for two minutes on important business, and then I
shall go," I replied gravely.
"Oh, sir! to what a scene you have come! To what a state has Clive's
conduct last night driven my darling child!"
As the odious woman spoke so, the doctor's keen eyes, looking up from the
prescription, caught mine. "I declare before Heaven, madam," I said
hotly, "I believe you yourself are the cause of your daughter's present
illness, as you have been of the misery of my friends."
"Is this, sir," she was breaking out, "is this language to be used
to----?"
"Madam, will you be silent?" I said. "I am come to bid you farewell on
the part of those whom your temper has driven into infernal torture. I am
come to pay you every halfpenny of the sum which my friends do not owe
you, but which they restore. Here is the account, and here is the money
to settle it.
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