About this story
It becomes a seven-year trial, two hundred a year to each son, while a sealed envelope waits in the solicitor's iron box. Frank learns the cotton ledgers, Laurie paints in Fitzroy Square, Ben builds a Canadian railway and returns to marry Mary. Forty chapters carry a father's sealed judgment to a blank sheet of blue paper.
How it opens
The river walk began pleasantly until your sister Lydia asked what Ben would inherit from you.
Mrs WestburyProperty without discipline will make him a vapid squire instead of a Renton.
Your family fortune had grown because each heir worked before he possessed it.
Mrs WestburyMy Richard earns his future in Calcutta while your sons practice comfort at home.
Choose
Defend his legal right without pretending that inheritance proves his ability.
Ask what specific work she believes Ben has refused.