Whether this will in any way affect
your own position I don't know. Will you have the goodness to
tell me whether you still purpose leaving this house?'
'I have no means of doing so.'
'Is there any likelihood of your marriage taking place, let us
say, within four months?'
'Only if the executors recover my money, or a large portion of
it.'
'I understand. My reason for asking is this. My lease of this
house terminates at the end of next March, and I shall certainly
not be justified in renewing it. If you are able to provide for
yourself in any way it will be sufficient for me to rent two
rooms after that. This disease which affects my eyes may be only
temporary; in due time an operation may render it possible for me
to work again. In hope of that I shall probably have to borrow a
sum of money on the security of my life insurance, though in the
first instance I shall make the most of what I can get for the
furniture of the house and a large part of my library; your
mother and I could live at very slight expense in lodgings. If
the disease prove irremediable, I must prepare myself for the
worst.
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