All the better that you have no need of money.

But now that you are my relative--will be so very soon--I want to tell you how my affairs stand.

Will you let me?
Please do!' Impossible to refuse a hearing to the good little woman, who delighted in confidential gossip, and for a long time had been anxious to pour these details into Harvey's ear.

So she unfolded everything.

Her capital at Bennet Frothingham's death amounted to more than sixteen thousand pounds, excellently invested--no 'Britannia' stocks or shares! Of this, during the past six months, she had given away nearly six thousand to sufferers by the great catastrophe.