Part 2 (1/2)
LIONNETTE.
What good would it have done?
JOHN.
Have you claimed that amount from her?
LIONNETTE.
Certainly. She denied it.
JOHN (_to_ RICHARD).
You might follow it up.
RICHARD.
No; it is trust-money. The law does not recognize it, and besides....
LIONNETTE.
I have only my word to support what I say. Madame de Spadetta replied to me that what my father had left her was in remuneration for services that her husband and she had rendered my father for thirty years. The truth is, that out of these two millions there were five hundred thousand francs for what she calls her services, and fifteen hundred thousand francs for me. It is for that that I turned her out of doors.
RICHARD.
Knowing that I have the care of your affairs, she came to find me out....
LIONNETTE.
To....
RICHARD.
To offer you five hundred thousand francs.
LIONNETTE.
On the part of whom? for she is a person equal to any kind of emba.s.sy.
RICHARD.
On the part of your father's family.
LIONNETTE.
What does she demand in return?...
RICHARD.
The giving up....