You can insure your life as against your uncle's, for a round sum--say for a hundred thousand pounds.
You will make over the policy to me.

I shall pay the premiums, and so if anything were to happen to you I should be recouped." He never once removed his eyes from Hine's face.

He sat with his elbows on the arms of his chair and his hands folded beneath his chin, quite still, but with a queer look of alertness upon his whole person.
"Yes, I see," said Mr.Hine, as he turned the proposal over in his mind.
"Do you agree ?" asked Jarvice.
"Yes," said Walter Hine.
"Very well," said Jarvice, all his old briskness returning.

"The sooner the arrangement is pushed through, the better for you, eh?
You will begin to touch the dibs." He laughed and Walter Hine chuckled.

"As to the insurance, you will have to get the company's doctor's certificate, and I should think it would be wise to go steady for a day or two, what?
You have been going the pace a bit, haven't you?
You had better see your solicitor to-day.