“Have you got it with you?”
“Yes—all of it.”
“I get my twenty-five to-morrow,” she added.
“Do you really get it?” he asked. “You can depend on it?”
“Oh yes—it comes the middle of each month.”
“I’ve heard of people getting incomes from investments, and things like that, but it always seemed hard to believe. I never thought I’d meet with it in my own life.”
“It’s certainly very nice,” said Corydon.
“Where does it come from?”
“There’s a trustee of the estate who sends it. It’s Mr. Hammond.”
“That bald-headed man I met once?”