| Description | The paymasters are eager to give John money, according to an ironical 'takeed' [order, or mandate] but he will not send his bills. She had John's hurried note and long letter that morning and expresses her gratitude to him. She describes overnight ill-health and having invited the Jacksons to early dinner as 'a little change for their queer, poverty stricken mode of life'. She thinks that Colonel Tennant owes complimentary allusion to his duty to his employees, but claims the credit whenever he can. She was pleased to read of his sport and asks if the potted meat answers as well as before. |