I will not go into the matter till I have all the details before me!' Then she stood up to go.
As they walked across the lawn, she said: 'By the way, don't forget to bring that letter with you.

I want to see what I really did say in it!' Her tone was quiet enough, and the wording was a request; but Leonard knew as well as if it had been spoken outright as a threat that if he did not have the letter with him when he came things were likely to be unpleasant.
The farther he got from Normanstand on his way home the more discontented Leonard grew.

Whilst he had been in Stephen's presence she had so dominated him, not only by her personality but by her use of her knowledge of his own circumstances, that he had not dared to make protest or opposition; but now he began to feel how much less he was to receive than he had expected.

He had come prepared to allow Stephen to fall into his arms, fortune and all.

But now, although he had practical assurance that the weight of his debts would be taken from him, he was going away with his tail between his legs.