To this letter Will immediately replied at some length.

The cheque he paid into his account, which thus reached a total of more than six hundred pounds.
A few days later, after breakfast as usual, he let his servant clear the table, then said with a peculiar smile.
"I want to have a little talk with you, Mrs.Hopper.Please sit down." To seat herself in her master's presence went against all Mrs.Hopper's ideas of propriety.

Seeing her hesitate, Will pointed steadily to a chair, and the good woman, much flurried, placed herself on the edge of it.
"You have noticed," Warburton resumed, "that I haven't been quite myself lately.

There was a good reason for it.

I've had a misfortune in business; all my plans are changed; I shall have to begin quite a new life--a different life altogether from that I have led till now." Mrs.Hopper seemed to have a sudden pain in the side.