side for the purpose. Whether it shall be openly declared in the new notices that must now be put about in our names—”
“In your name, Mr. Boffin; in your name.”
“Very well; in my name, which is the same as Mrs. Boffin’s, and means both of us, is to be considered in drawing ’em up. But this is the first instruction that I, as the owner of the property, give to my lawyer on coming into it.”
“Your lawyer, Mr. Boffin,” returned Lightwood, making a very short note of it with a very rusty pen, “has the gratification of taking the instruction. There is another?”
“There is just one other, and no more. Make me as compact a little will as can be reconciled with tightness, leaving the whole of the property to ‘my beloved wife, Henerietty Boffin, sole executrix.’ Make it as short as you can, using those words; but make it tight.”