Adelaide had been quite enthusiastic as to the forty pounds, and had suggested that she would do it for thirty.

The housekeeping was a matter of course, and the more so as a leg of mutton roast or boiled would be the beginning and the end of it.

To Adelaide the discussion had been exciting and pleasurable, and she had been quite in earnest when looking forward to a new life at Maule Abbey.

After all there could be no such great difficulty for a young married couple to live on L800 a year, with a house and garden of their own.

There would be no carriage and no man servant till,--till old Mr.Maule was dead.