I act as my brother's secretary, and we find it answers very well.

He is a rich man, and there is a good deal of business in connection with the estate, and so on.

I am a poor man.

By my father's will nearly everything was left to him and to Isabel.

I was something of an offence to him, being the cause of my mother's death and misshapen into the bargain." "What a wicked shame!" broke from Dinah.
"No, no! Some people are like that.