Otherwise, as of course you know, you come of age, legally speaking, on your twenty-fifth birthday." Morris lit another cigarette rather impatiently.
"Yes, I knew I was a minor till I was twenty-five," he said, "and I suppose I have known that if I married after the age of twenty-two, I became a major, or whatever you call it.

But what then?
Do let us go and play billiards, I'll give you twenty-five in a hundred, because I've been playing a lot lately, and I'll bet half a crown." Mr.Taynton's fist gently tapped the table.
"Done," he said, "and we will play in five minutes.

But I have something to say to you first.

Your mother, as you know, enjoys the income of the bulk of your father's property for her lifetime.

Outside that, he left this much smaller capital of which, as also of her money, my partner and I are trustees.