He did not know that.

As to the poverty in which you found him, I can only plead that I did not dream that he would come to that.

He had, I knew, some money, for I had just sent him his half-year's allowance before he wrote to me about this business.

Then there was the furniture of his rooms in London, his horses, jewels, and other matters.

I had thought he could go on very well for a year.
"Of course, I was mistaken.