Still more inconvenient at the time when I had this talk with Rimbolt about six months ago, I had just come back from America with my finances in not at all a flourishing condition, so that if even I had been disposed to refund my ward, I could not have done it.

Happily he was lost.

It was an immense relief to me, I can assure you.
"Two months ago my finances looked up.

I had news that some of my Yankee speculations were turning out well, and I unexpectedly found myself a man of means again.

Rimbolt, who certainly has the knack of making ill-timed suggestions, proposed that that would be a good opportunity for making good what properly belonged to my ward.