CHAPTER IV.
In the morning he had a letter from Mrs.Woolstan.Opening it hurriedly, he was pleased, but not surprised, to discover a cheque folded in the note-paper.

Iris wrote that, as a matter of course, she wished to pay what was owing to him in respect of his tutorial engagement so abruptly brought to an end.

"Even between friends, one must be businesslike.

You ought to have received a quarter's notice, and, as it is now nearly the end of April, you must allow me to reckon my debt as up to the quarterday in September.

If you say a word about it, I shall be angry, So _no nonsense, please_!" The phrase underlined was a quotation from Dyce himself, who often used it, in serio-joking tone, when he had occasion to reprove Mrs.Woolstan for some act or word which jarred with his system.