Drawers were left open; coats and hats, account-books and papers, pipes and fishing-rods were all scattered about together.

She went in, and pushed the door to--but so gently that she still left it ajar.

"It will amuse me to put his room to rights," she thought to herself.

"I should like to do something for him before I am down on my bed, helpless." She began to arrange his drawers, and found his banker's book lying open in one of them.

"My poor dear, how careless he is! The servants might have seen all his affairs, if I had not happened to have looked in." She set the drawers right; and then turned to the multifarious litter on a side-table.