The will had been carefully drawn up, and provided against all sorts of real and imaginary dangers.

The one thing it couldn't provide against was the imbecility of the old aunt, who still had the girls in her care.
"A couple of years went by, and Lilian became a teacher in the school she had attended.

Do you know anything about Bristol and the neighbourhood?
It seems that the people there are in the habit of going to a place called Weston-super-Mare--excursion steamers, and so on.
Well, the girls and their aunt went to spend a day at Weston, and on the boat they somehow made acquaintance with a young man named Northway.

That means, of course, he made up to them, and the aunt was idiot enough to let him keep talking.

He stuck by them all day, and accompanied them back to Bristol .-- Pah! it sickens me to tell the story!" He took the glass to drink, but it slipped from his nervous fingers and crashed on the ground.
"Never mind; let it be there.