They will have instructions from my agent to furnish you with a complete outfit, and will know exactly how many dozens of everything are required.
"I can see no reason why you should not start within a month after the receipt of this letter, and I shall look most anxiously for a letter from you saying that you will come, and that you will start by a sailing ship in a month at latest from the date of your writing." Isobel did not hesitate, as her faith in her uncle was unbounded.

Next to her meetings with her brother, his letters had been her greatest pleasures.

He had always taken her part; it was he who, at her request, had Robert placed at school, and he had kept her at Miss Virtue's in spite of her mother's complaints.

At home she had never felt comfortable; it had always seemed to her that she was in the way; her mother disapproved of her; while from Helena she had never had a sisterly word.

To go out to India to see the wonders she had read of, and to be her uncle's companion, seemed a perfectly delightful prospect.
Her answer to her uncle was sent off the day after she received his letter, and that day month she stepped on board an Indiaman in the London Docks.
The intervening time had not been a pleasant one.