"I feel for him, I do indeed.

He had the key made--for himself; he certainly let me use it once, but only once, and who's to prove it?
And he's had the opportunity every day of using it himself.

That's very awkward, Foxy, my boy.

If I were Foxy, I should be in a funk, myself." He strolled away, thinking that all promised well.

Lotty most favorably and unsuspiciously received in her new character; no one knowing the contents of the packet; his grandfather gone silly; and for himself, he had had the opportunity of advising exactly what he wished to be done--namely, that silence and inaction should be observed for a space, in order to give the holders of the property a chance of offering terms.