It will never do to leave him alone, or that fellow Jacobi will get hold of him again.

I find he has already lent him money.

I have been questioning Cedric, and I find that Saul Jacobi trumped up a false excuse for him to make to the Dean.

Cedric was a little incoherent on the subject, but I understood him to say that he had begged for a three days' excuse on account of a sister's illness." "As far as I can make out, Jacobi merely intended to have the marriage ceremony performed, and to allow Cedric to return to Oxford the next day.

He had pacified him by promising to bring down his sister later, and to take lodgings for a week or two; but it is impossible to guess what the fellow really meant.