That is where my error lay.

I gave your mother her will in this.

She liked not the shop beneath, and I stored my goods elsewhere.

Poor woman, she is dead and gone; we will speak no hard things of her weaknesses and follies.

But had she lived to see this day, she had grievously lamented her resolve to have naught about her to remind her of buying and selling." "Ah, poor mother! I often think it was the happiest thing for her to be taken ere these fearful things came to pass.