"But—but let me intercede——"
"Not a word. How do you spell 'testament'?"
"With two t's—no, three."
"I know that. Don't be a fool. Is it 'tement' or 'toment'?"
"The latter, I think, I fancy—or the former, one of the two most certainly."
"Of course it's one of the two. But which? It doesn't matter. There! If I fall, she's a pauper. That's something."
It was indeed something to the poor lady among the dibble-holes.
"Take charge of that, Rodney."
"Certainly, Duke. Now I see the word written I fancy it may possibly be 'tament.'"
"It doesn't matter. When a man's going to fight to the death to revenge his honour, one vowel's as good as another."