Diana, however, said nothing, and the girl resumed: "I mean, in business.

He'd got everything into a shocking state, and instead of six hundred a year for us--as we'd always been led on to expect--well, there wasn't three! Then, you know, Uncle Mallory used to send us money.

Well" (she cleared her throat again and looked away from Diana), "about a year before he died he and father fell out about something--so _that_ didn't come in any more.

Then we thought perhaps he'd remember us in his will.

And that was another disappointment.