'After that, it rests with you to say when you will enter into possession.

I promise not to speak of it again until, on coming into the room, I see your atlas lying open on the table; that shall be a sign unto me.' On his return to London he received a note from Mrs.Frothingham, requesting him to be at home at a certain hour, as she wished to call and speak privately with him.

This gave him an uneasy night; he imagined all manner of vexatious or distracting possibilities; but Mrs Frothingham brought no ill news.
'Don't be frightened,' she began, reading his anxious face.

'All's well, and I am quite sure Alma will soon have something to say to you.
I have come on a matter of business--strictly business.' Harvey felt a new kind of uneasiness.
'Let me speak in a plain way about plain things,' pursued the widow, with that shadow on her face which always indicated that she was thinking of the mournful past.

'I know that neither Alma nor you would hear of her accepting money from me; I know I mustn't speak of it.