My news is this.

Things are going rather badly down at the vicarage.

There's serious diminution of income, which I knew nothing about.

And the end of it is, that I mustn't count on any more supplies; they have no more money to spare for me.

You see, I _am_ thoroughly independent." He laughed; but Mrs.Woolstan gazed at him in dismay.
"Oh! Oh! How very serious! What a dreadful thing!" "Pooh! Not at all.