As for interest, he would not take any--take interest from a brother! of course not.

Well, if Mark made such a fuss about it, he supposed he must take it; but would rather not.

Mark should have his own way, and do just what he liked.
This was all very well, and Mark had fully made up his mind that his brother should not be kept long out of his money.

But then arose the question, how was that money to be reached?
He, Mark, was executor, or one of the executors under his father's will, and, therefore, no doubt, could put his hand upon it; but his brother wanted five months of being of age, and could not therefore as yet be put legally in possession of the legacy.

"That's a bore," said the assistant private secretary to the Lord Petty Bag, thinking, perhaps, as much of his own immediate wish for ready cash as he did of his brother's necessities.