It has so happened that even since we were married the immediate use of a sum of money became essential to me to save me from sacrificing a cargo of guano which will be of greatly increased value in three months' time, but which otherwise must have gone for what it would now fetch.

Your kindness will see me through that difficulty.
Of course there is something precarious in such a business as mine;--but I am endeavouring to make it less so from day to day, and hope very shortly to bring it into that humdrum groove which best befits a married man.
Should I ask further assistance from you in doing this, perhaps you will not refuse it if I can succeed in making the matter clear to you.

As it is I thank you sincerely for what you have done.

I will ask you to pay the L3000 you have so kindly promised, to my account at Messrs.
Hunky and Sons, Lombard Street.

They are not regular bankers, but I have an account there.
We are wandering about and enjoying ourselves mightily in the properly romantic manner.