The sum he left you was thirty thousand pounds.

It is now rather over forty thousand pounds, since we have changed the investments from time to time, and always, I am glad to say, with satisfactory results.

The value of her property has gone up also in a corresponding degree.

That, however, does not concern you.

But since you are now twenty-two, and your marriage would put the whole of this smaller sum into your hands, would it not be well for you to look through our books, to see for yourself the account we render of our stewardship ?" Morris laughed.
"But for what reason ?" he asked.