And they discussed matters in that cozy tone of confidential intercourse which is so directly at variance with the tones used by men when they ordinarily talk of business.

"He has brought me good news for your friend, Miss Amedroz," said the lawyer.
"What good news ?" "That aunt of hers left her fifteen hundred pounds, after all.

Or rather, she did not leave it, but desired on her death-bed that it might be given." "That's the same thing, I suppose ?" "Oh quite;--that is to say, it's the same thing if the person who has to hand over the money does not dispute the legacy.

But it shows how the old lady's conscience pricked her at last.

And after all it was a shabby sum, and should have been three times as much." "Fifteen hundred pounds! And that is all she will have when her father dies ?" "Every farthing, Will.