"How much do you think a Major on half-pay can save ?" he asked.

"If these people have been looking at him as a fortune, they are utterly mistaken-and-and you have made me the happiest man in the world." "Sir to you," said Mr.Foker, politely, and when they parted for the night they shook hands with the greatest cordiality; the younger gentleman promising the elder not to leave Chatteris without a further conversation in the morning.

And as the Major went up to his room, and Mr.Foker smoked his cigar against the door pillars of the George, Pen, very likely, ten miles off; was lying in bed kissing the letter from his Emily.
The next morning, before Mr.Foker drove off in his drag, the insinuating Major had actually got a letter of Miss Rouncy's in his own pocket-book.

Let it be a lesson to women how they write.

And in very high spirits Major Pendennis went to call upon Doctor Portman at the Deanery, and told him what happy discoveries he had made on the previous night.