Now, what do you want to know first ?" "Well," said Mr Croft, "I would like very much to know how a young lady like you came to be Mr Candy's cashier." "I supposed you would want to know that," she said.

"It's a dreadfully long story, and as it is a strictly family matter I had almost made up my mind last night that I ought not to tell it to you at all, but as I don't know how much you are mixed up with the family, I afterward thought it best, for my own sake, to explain the matter to you.

So I will give you the principal points.

My mother was a sister of Mrs Keswick, and Junius' mother was another sister.

Both his parents died when he was a boy, and Aunt Keswick brought him up.