You know we are a plebeian lot on the male side, my grandfather was a draper in a large way of business, my father was a coal-merchant who made a great fortune.

His brother, my uncle, in whom my father always believed implicitly, took to what is called Finance, and when my father died he left me, his only child, in his guardianship.

Until I am five and twenty I cannot even marry or touch a halfpenny without his consent; in fact if I should marry against his will the most of my money goes to him." "I expect that he has got it already," said Alan.
"No, I think not.

I found out that, although it is not mine, it is not his.

He can't draw it without my signature, and I steadily refuse to sign anything.