The case is plain as daylight." "There's no doubt that he'll have his father's money ?" "None whatever.

For more than a year now, he's been on good terms with the old man.

Ted is a very decent fellow, of his sort.

I don't say that I care as much for him now as I used to; we've both of us altered; but his worst fault is extravagance.

The old man, it must be confessed, isn't very good form; he smells rather of the distillery; but Ted Strangwyn might come of the best family in the land.