"I don't think he looks so very healthy," added the squire.
"He has a good color."
"His father was the picture of health till within a few weeks of his death."
"What did he die of?"
"To be sure. The old man looks as if he might go off that way."
"In that case we should only need to be troubled with him a couple of years, and for that we should be richly repaid."
"They will seem like two eternities," groaned the lady, "and the chief burden will come on me."
"You shall be repaid, my dear! Only treat him well!"
"Will you give me half what money he leaves to us?"