'E says 'twould ease 'is conscience to carry on the pore old Colonel's dog-breeding.

As for me, I'd just as lief 'ave 'im in a good job--what gentlefolk call 'a cushy job'-- with a gentleman like this Major Radmore seems to be.

But there! Piper's just set on them nasty dogs, and 'e's planned it all out." "Five hundred pounds is a great deal of money." Enid Crofton spoke in a dull, preoccupied tone.
"Not so much as it used to be, not by any manner of means," said Mrs.Piper shrewdly.

"Think it over, Mrs.Crofton--and let us know what you _can_ do.

Perhaps it needn't be paid all in one; but best to write to Piper next time.