Frank Greystock Frank Greystock the barrister was the only son of the Dean of Bobsborough.

Now the dean had a family of daughters,--not quite so numerous indeed as that of Lady Fawn, for there were only three of them,--and was by no means a rich man.

Unless a dean have a private fortune, or has chanced to draw the happy lot of Durham in the lottery of deans, he can hardly be wealthy.

At Bobsborough the dean was endowed with a large, rambling, picturesque, uncomfortable house, and with L1,500 a year.

In regard to personal property it may be asserted of all the Greystocks that they never had any.