If you decide on coming, come at once, or possibly you may not find me here.

If you refuse, I shall have a poor opinion of your sense and temper, and in a week I shall have forgotten your existence.

I ought to add that your father and I were once warm friends, and that by descent I am the head not only of my own race, which ends with me, but of the Haughton family, of which, though your line assumed the name, it was but a younger branch.

Nowadays young men are probably not brought up to care for these things: I was.

Yours, GUY HAUGHTON DARRELL.
MANOR HOUSE, FAWLEY.
Sophy picked up the fallen letters, placed them on Lionel's lap, and looked into his face wistfully.