The Late Tenant

So, you see, David simply couldn’t help himself, or rather, from another point of view, he did help himself to a remarkably charming wife and a considerable fortune.

Miss Ermyn L’Estrange insisted on an invitation to the wedding, which took place at Rigsworth as quietly as the inhabitants of the village would allow. The volatile actress won such favor from a local land agent in a fair way of business that he goes to town far too frequently, people say, and it is highly probable that her name will be changed soon to a less euphonious one, which will be good for her and excellent for the land agent’s business.

Sarah Gissing found a new post as Master Henry’s nurse, and Mrs. Carter was well rewarded for the care she had taken of the boy. The postmistress’s sister received a fine diamond ring when David, by dint of judicious questioning, found out the identity of the “friend” who sent that most timely telegram, and, strangely enough, the surly gamekeeper never received either the fifty pounds, or the thrashing, or the sack; but was minus the silver paid to his poacher assistants for their night watch.

So, even this little side issue, out of the many grave ones raised by David’s tenancy of an ordinary flat in an ordinary London mansion, shows how often the unexpected happens, even in ordinary life.