It contained a deposit-note from the bank for the sum of two hundred pounds which had that day been added to her account.

Stephen's information, then, was correct, and the transfer made.
'I have saved this in one year,' Stephen's letter went on to say, 'and what so proper as well as pleasant for me to do as to hand it over to you to keep for your use?
I have plenty for myself, independently of this.

Should you not be disposed to let it lie idle in the bank, get your father to invest it in your name on good security.

It is a little present to you from your more than betrothed.

He will, I think, Elfride, feel now that my pretensions to your hand are anything but the dream of a silly boy not worth rational consideration.' With a natural delicacy, Elfride, in mentioning her father's marriage, had refrained from all allusion to the pecuniary resources of the lady.
Leaving this matter-of-fact subject, he went on, somewhat after his boyish manner: 'Do you remember, darling, that first morning of my arrival at your house, when your father read at prayers the miracle of healing the sick of the palsy--where he is told to take up his bed and walk?
I do, and I can now so well realize the force of that passage.