"I think you had better write your letter first,"-- and then he absolutely made her write it in the office and give it to him to be posted.

After that he promised to communicate to Reginald Morton what had been done.
The household was very much disturbed the whole of that evening.

Poor Mary never remembered such a state of things, and when there had been any difference of opinion, she had hitherto never been the cause of it.

Now it was all owing to her! And things were said so terrible that she hardly knew how to bear them.

Her father had promised her the twenty pounds, and it was insinuated that all the comforts of the family must be stopped because of this lavish extravagance.