"What! take bad security to oblige you?"
"Well, there's an end of that."
"I'll tell you what; I'll do as much to oblige a friend as any one. I'll lend you five thousand pounds, you yourself, without security at all, if you want it."
"But you know I don't want it; or, at any rate, shan't take it."
"But to ask me to go on lending money to a third party, and he over head and ears in debt, by way of obliging you, why, it's a little too much."
"Well, there's an end of it. Now I've something to say to you about that will of yours."
"Oh! that's settled."
"No, Scatcherd; it isn't settled. It must be a great deal more settled before we have done with it, as you'll find when you hear what I have to tell you."
"What you have to tell me!" said Sir Roger, sitting up in bed; "and what have you to tell me?"
"Your will says your sister's eldest child."