I hope you are well, and have quite lost that nasty cough, and that Mr.Vance treats you with proper respect.

I think him rather too pushing and familiar, though a pleasant young man on the whole.

But, after all, he is only a painter Bless you, my child, and don't have secrets again from your poor mother.
JESSICA HAUGHTON.
The enclosed letter was as follows:-- LIONEL HAUGHTON,--Some men might be displeased at receiving such a letter as you have addressed to me; I am not.

At your years, and under the same circumstances, I might have written a letter much in the same spirit.

Relieve your mind: as yet you owe me no obligations; you have only received back a debt due to you.