Thus Venn in his anxiety to rectify matters, had placed in Thomasin’s hands not only the fifty guineas which rightly belonged to her, but also the fifty intended for her cousin Clym. His mistake had been based upon Wildeve’s words at the opening of the game, when he indignantly denied that the first guinea was not his own. It had not been heard by the reddleman that at halfway through the performance Thomasin’s money was exhausted, the continuation being with that of another person; and it was an error which afterwards helped to cause more misfortune than treble the loss in money value could
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