She told me your aunt was dead, and had left you heir to her property in Scotland.

Is that true ?--It is ?--I congratulate you with all my heart.

Why are you visiting here, instead of looking after your house and lands?
Oh! it's only three-and-twenty miles from this; and you're going to look after it to-day, by the next train?
Quite right.

And--what?
what ?--coming back again the day after to-morrow?
Why should you come back?
Some special attraction here, I suppose?
I hope it's the right sort of attraction.
You're very young--you're exposed to all sorts of temptations.

Have you got a solid foundation of good sense at the bottom of you?
It is not inherited from your poor father, if you have.