If there be any blanks, I will fill them up; if you require explanations, I will give them.

Do you agree ?" "I agree." "The second condition is that you neither make use of the narrative for any purpose of your own, nor disclose the whole or any part of it to anybody until and unless I give you leave.

What say you ?" "I say yes." "The third and last condition is, that you engage to stay with me in your present capacity until it pleases me to give you your _conge_.

Again what say you ?" This was rather a "big order," and very one-sided.

It bound me to remain with Mr.Fortescue for an indefinite period, yet left him at liberty to dismiss me at a moment's notice; and if he went on living, I might have to stay at Kingscote till I was old and gray.