The Story Continued by Vincent Gilmore of Chancery Lane, Solicitor

My task is done. My personal share in the events of the family story extends no farther than the point which I have just reached. Other pens than mine will describe the strange circumstances which are now shortly to follow. Seriously and sorrowfully I close this brief record. Seriously and sorrowfully I repeat here the parting words that I spoke at Limmeridge House:⁠—No daughter of mine should have been married to any man alive under such a settlement as I was compelled to make for Laura Fairlie.