Above all things, endeavor to thoroughly reconcile him and Mrs Keswick, so that she will cease to oppose his wishes, and to interfere with his future fortune.

If you can bring back good feeling between these two, you will be the angel of the family." "Thank you," said Mrs Null, as they rose from the table.
The next morning, after Mr Brandon and Mrs Null had breakfasted together, the mistress of the house, having apparently finished the performance of the duties which had kept her from the breakfast-table, had some conversation with her visitor.

In this he repeated very little of what he had said to the younger lady the night before, but he assured Mrs Keswick that he had discovered that it would be a very delicate thing to propose to her niece a divorce from her husband, a thing to which she was not at all inclined, as he had found.
"Of course not! of course not!" exclaimed Mrs Keswick.

"She can't be expected to see what a wretched plight she has got herself into by marrying this straggler from nobody knows where." "But, madam," said Mr Brandon, "if you worry her about it, she will leave you, and then all will be at an end.

Now, let me advise you as your lawyer.