"You have done enough already," he said.

"Were I to allow you to go further, I should feel mean.

And I do not think you would like your wife's father to suffer that feeling after a long life, which he has tried to live in honour." I bowed, and said no more.

So there the matter rests, and I have to take my own course.

I have had a survey made, and on the head of it the Tunnel to the harbour is begun..