I thank you for the question.

I thank you even more for the tone of the question.

But there is nothing." She presently rose from her seat, and looked about the blighted room for the means of writing.

There were none there, and she took from her pocket a yellow set of ivory tablets, mounted in tarnished gold, and wrote upon them with a pencil in a case of tarnished gold that hung from her neck.
"You are still on friendly terms with Mr.Jaggers ?" "Quite.

I dined with him yesterday." "This is an authority to him to pay you that money, to lay out at your irresponsible discretion for your friend.