I said: “Certainly, aunt.”

“It’s not a businesslike way of speaking,” said my aunt, “nor a worldly way. I am aware of that; and that’s the reason why I insist upon it, that there shan’t be a word about it in his Memorial .”

“Is it a Memorial about his own history that he is writing, aunt?”

“Yes, child,” said my aunt, rubbing her nose again. “He is memorializing the Lord Chancellor, or the Lord Somebody or other⁠—one of those people, at all events, who are paid to be memorialized⁠—about his affairs. I suppose it will go in, one of these days. He hasn’t been able to draw it up yet, without introducing that mode of expressing himself; but it don’t signify; it keeps him employed.”