"Have you decided who's to look after your affairs while you are away?
If you haven't, you might do worse than leave them to Stephen.

He's steady and safe as a rock, and, after all, the three per cent.

you're sure of is better than a handsome dividend you may never get." "I can't give Herbert the go-by.

He's the obvious person to do whatever may be needful." "I suppose so," Edgar assented, with some reluctance.

"No doubt he'd feel hurt if you asked anybody else; but I wish you could have got Stephen." He changed the subject; and when some of the others came up and joined them, he resumed his humorous manner.
"I'm not asking for sympathy," he said, in answer to one remark.