It ended with, "Do send me a photograph of your lovely wife!" When the poor "model" died, not many years afterwards, leaving one little daughter, Mrs.Gallilee implored her brother to return to England.

"Come, dearest Robert, and find consolation and a home, under the roof of your affectionate Maria." But Robert remained in Italy, and was buried in Italy.

At the date of his death, he had three times paid his elder sister's debts.

On every occasion when he helped her in this liberal way, she proved her gratitude by anticipating a larger, and a larger, and a larger legacy if she outlived him.
Knowing (as the family lawyer) what sums of money Mrs.Gallilee had extracted from her brother, Mr.Mool also knew that the advances thus made had been considered as representing the legacy, to which she might otherwise have had some sisterly claim.

It was his duty to have warned her of this, when she questioned him generally on the subject of the Will; and he had said nothing about it, acting under a most unbecoming motive--in plain words, the motive of fear.