"We were a little mad.

We did not mean to leave it in your father's charge, however.

That is why this illness of his is so embarrassing to us.

We can't help an idea that it is to keep out of our way for a few days, and to retain possession of that wretched document, that he is lying by.

If, on the other hand, his illness is genuine, and he were, to put it bluntly, to die, that paper would be discovered by his lawyer, and Heaven knows what he would do with it!" "I am beginning to understand," Stella said.