He did not like the appearance of this determined young owner upon the scene, with his free and un-Meeson-like ways.
Eustace turned them over, and while he did so, his happy wife stood by him, marvelling at the kaleidoscopic changes in her circumstances.

When last she had stood in that office, not a year ago, it had been as a pitiful suppliant begging for a few pounds wherewith to try and save her sister's life, and now-- Suddenly Eustace stopped turning, and drawing a document from the bundle, glanced at it.

It was Augusta's agreement with Meeson and Co.

for "Jemima's Vow," the agreement binding her to them for five years which had been the cause of all her troubles, and, as she firmly believed, of her little sister's death.
"There, my dear," said Eustace to his wife, "there is a present for you.

Take it!" Augusta took the document, and having looked to see what it was, shivered as she did so.