If he thinks I am free to act in any way on my own responsibility, I shall not hesitate to do so." Then Doctor Winchester took his leave.
Miss Trelawny sat down and wrote a letter to Mr.Marvin, telling him of the state of affairs, and asking him to come and see her and to bring with him any papers which might throw any light on the subject.

She sent the letter off with a carriage to bring back the solicitor; we waited with what patience we could for his coming.
It is not a very long journey for oneself from Kensington Palace Gardens to Lincoln's Inn Fields; but it seemed endlessly long when waiting for someone else to take it.

All things, however, are amenable to Time; it was less than an hour all told when Mr.Marvin was with us.
He recognised Miss Trelawny's impatience, and when he had learned sufficient of her father's illness, he said to her: "Whenever you are ready I can go with you into particulars regarding your Father's wishes." "Whenever you like," she said, with an evident ignorance of his meaning.

"Why not now ?" He looked at me, as to a fellow man of business, and stammered out: "We are not alone." "I have brought Mr.Ross here on purpose," she answered.

"He knows so much at present, that I want him to know more." The solicitor was a little disconcerted, a thing which those knowing him only in courts would hardly have believed.