However, this here proposition will perhaps be more welcome.

It's always been understood that I was to have a retiring pension of five hundred pounds per annum.
The family has always promised it--I've letters to prove it.

Will Miss Greyle stand to that if she comes in?
I've been a faithful servant for nigh on to fifty years, Mr.Vickers, as all the neighbourhood is aware." "If I come in, as you call it, you shall have your pension," said Audrey.
Chatfield slowly felt in a capacious inner pocket and produced a large notebook and a fountain pen.

He passed them to Vickers.
"We'll have that there in writing, signed and witnessed," he said.

"Put, if you please, Mr.Vickers, 'I agree that if I come into the Scarhaven estate, Peter Chatfield shall at once be pensioned off with five hundred pounds a year, to be paid quarterly.