They know if Juliet becomes my wife I won't let them prey on her, so immediately Miss Loach died the mother withdrew her consent to the marriage, and now she is being backed up by Basil." "But I thought Mrs.Octagon was well off ?" "No.

Saxon, her late husband, left her very little, and Octagon, for all his meekness, knows how to keep his money.

Both mother and son are extravagant, so they hope to make poor Juliet their banker.

In some way they have implicated me in the crime, and Juliet thinks that I am in danger of the gallows.

That is why she wrote that mysterious note, Jennings.