I hope and trust you will help me in my difficulty.

I need hardly say I have seen the folly of my old ways, and am determined to live carefully and economically in future.

Do please write by return and help me.
"Your affect.

nephew,-- "Fred.

Batchelor." Jack approved of this effusion as businesslike and to the point.
"You haven't gone out of the way to excuse yourself," said he, "and I dare say it will go down all the better for that.