It seemed so ungracious to get what they wanted, and then turn their backs directly.

She hinted as much, very timidly.
But Bartley was inexorable, and they reached home next day.
Mary would have liked to write to Walter, and announce their safe arrival, but nature withheld her.

She was a child no longer.
Bartley went to the sharp solicitor, and had a long interview with him.
The result was that in about ten days he sent Walter Clifford a letter and the draft of a lease, very favorable to the landlord on the whole, but cannily inserting one unusual clause that looked inoffensive.
It came by post, and Walter read the letter, and told his father whom it was from.
"What does the fellow say ?" grunted Colonel Clifford.
"He says: 'We are doing very well here, but Hope says a bailiff can now carry out our system; and he is evidently sweet on his native place, and thinks the proposed rent is fair, and even moderate.

As for me, my life used to be so bustling that I require a change now and then; so I will be your tenant.

Hope says I am to pay the expense of the lease, so I have requested Arrowsmith & Cox to draw it.