It would then be for him to declare what he intended to do.

That would, I think, have been preferable.

As it is we are all in doubt.

In my position a knowledge of what your father intends to do would be most valuable to me." "Should you not ask him ?" "I believe there has always been a perfect confidence between you and him ?" "Certainly,--as to all our ways of living.

But he never said a word to me about money in his life." "And yet, my darling, money is most important." "Of course it is.