"
"Why, that's my uncle's Bank! I mean, he is the Chairman of the Board
of Directors, and the Bank is the apple of his eye; or one of them, I
mean--I'm the other."
"Oh, both, I fancy," said Dunn, rather pleased with his own courage.
"But come, this is serious," said Miss Brodie. "The Bank, you know, or
you don't know, is my uncle's weak spot."
Mr. Rae's words flashed across Dunn's mind: "We ought to have found his
weak spots."
"He says," continued Miss Brodie with a smile--"you know he's an old
dear!--I divide his heart with the Bank, that I have the left lobe.
Isn't that the bigger one? So the Bank and I are his weak spots; unless
it is his Wiltshires--he is devoted to Wiltshires."
"Wiltshires?"
"Pigs. There are times when I feel myself distinctly second to them. Are
you sure my uncle knows all about Cameron?"
"Well, Mr. Rae and Captain Cameron--that's young Cameron's father--went
out to his place--"
"Ah, that was a mistake," said Miss Brodie. "He hates people following
him to the country. Well, what happened?"
"Mr. Rae feels that it was rather a mistake that Captain Cameron went
along."
"Why so? He is his father, isn't he?"
"Yes, he is, though I'm bound to say he's rather queer for a father."
Whereupon Dunn gave her an account of his interview in Mr.
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