Will you be calm and brave if I tell you what it is ?" "They have taken you into partnership!" she cried, rapturously.

"They have found out how clever and good you are!" In the midst of my agitation I laughed at this very unbusiness-like idea.
"It is better than that, Clare.

There need be no more business, no more work for me.

You remember hearing my mother speak of my father's cousin, Sir Barnard Trevelyan, of Crown Anstey ?" "Yes, I remember it," she said.

"I had almost forgotten." "He is dead, and, sad to say, both his sons are dead.