I think you should say that we should be glad to know what he intends to do, also saying that a certain sum of money would at present be of use to me." "Would it not be better from you?
I only ask, Ferdinand.

I never have even spoken to him about money, and of course he would know that you had dictated what I said." "No doubt he would.

It is natural that I should do so.

I hope the time may come when I may write quite freely to your father myself, but hitherto he has hardly been courteous to me.

I would rather that you should write,--if you do not mind it.