"You got matters fixed satisfactorily at Montgomery--no trouble about your appointment ?" "None; Mrs.Owen had arranged all that." "You mentioned to her, did you, my offer to help ?" "Oh, yes! But she had already arranged with Akins, the banker, about the administrator's bond, and we went at once to business." "That's all right; only I wanted to be sure Mrs.Owen understood I had offered to help you.

She's very kind to my wife and children; Mrs.
Bassett has been almost like a daughter to her, you know.

There's really some property to administer, is there ?" "Very little, sir.

The Professor had been obliged to drop part of his life insurance and there was only two thousand in force when he died.
The house he lived in may bring another two.

There are some publishers' contracts that seem to have no value.