At the reading of the late Louisa Catherine, her sister, Alice Mason, discovers that she has been left nothing of the estate, and that it has instead, been left to Catherine. With the Will, there is a letter marked 'Private' for the attention of Alice, with instructions that it must be given to her, after the reading of the will, and the letter begins "I haven't left you, or that parasite of a son of yours, a penny..."