When I return to Dulverton, which I trust to do to-morrow (for it is too late to-day), I shall be careful not to tell him your opinion of him, lest I should thwart any schemes you may have upon his property.

I thank you all for your kindness to me, which has been very great, far more than a little dwarfish creature could, for her own sake, expect.

I will only add for your further guidance one more little truth.

It is by no means certain that my grandfather will settle any of his miserable money upon me.

If I offend him, as I would in a moment, for the sake of a brave and straightforward man'-- here she gave me a glance which I scarcely knew what to do with--'my grandfather, upright as he is, would leave me without a shilling.