“Six months?” suggested Noel Vanstone.
“Six months, sir,” rejoined Mrs. Lecount, “is the preferable time of the two. A six months' interval from the day of your death is enough for Mr. George. You look discomposed, sir; what is the matter?”
“I wish you wouldn't talk so much about my death,” he broke out, petulantly. “I don't like it! I hate the very sound of the word!”
Mrs. Lecount smiled resignedly, and referred to her Draft.
“I see the word 'decease' written here,” she remarked. “Perhaps, Mr. Noel, you would prefer it?”
“Yes,” he said; “I prefer 'Decease.' It doesn't sound so dreadful as 'Death.'“
“Let us go on with the letter, sir.”
She resumed her dictation, as follows:
“...in either of those cases, I make it a condition of his receiving the legacy that he shall be marr
