To hear him one would have supposed that he was
in his ordinary mood; he laughed at his own jokes and points.
'They'll have to pay me more,' was the remark with which he
closed. 'I only wanted to make myself indispensable to them, and
at the end of this year I shall feel pretty sure of that. They'll
have to give me two guineas a column; by Jove! they will.'
'And you may hope for much more than that, mayn't you, before
long?'
'Oh, I shall transfer myself to a better paper presently. It
seems to me I must be stirring to some purpose.'
He gave her a significant look.
'What shall we do, Jasper?'
'Work and wait, I suppose.'
'There's something I must tell you. Father said I had better sign
that Harrington article myself. If I do that, I shall have a
right to the money, I think. It will at least be eight guineas.
And why shouldn't I go on writing for myself--for us? You can
help me to think of subjects.'
'First of all, what about my letter to your father? We are
forgetting all about it.'
'He refused to answer.'
Marian avoided closer description of what had happened.
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