Nor was it as yet known to any one in what manner the money was to go back, how it was to be divided, or who were to be the recipients.

But she had declared that it should go back, explaining that she had conceived it to be a duty to let her own relations know that they would not inherit her wealth at her death.
About a week after she had sent back poor Hugh's letter with the endorsement on it as to unworthy bread, she summoned Martha to the back parlour in which she was accustomed to write her letters.

It was one of the theories of her life that different rooms should be used only for the purposes for which they were intended.

She never allowed pens and ink up into the bed-rooms, and had she ever heard that any guest in her house was reading in bed, she would have made an instant personal attack upon that guest, whether male or female, which would have surprised that guest.

Poor Hugh would have got on better with her had he not been discovered once smoking in the garden.