[The family had been threatened with financial loss and feared actual poverty and he had been able to avert the danger]. He reports that he was pleased with what he had discovered when examining the bank at Weymouth. He had found his stepfather in an unapproachable mood that evening and so had deferred his conversations with him to a more propitious occasion. The following day he had accompanied his mother on a ten-mile ride, which was the first time she had been on a horse for some months. He then settled the family quarrel between his stepfather and Anna and discussed financial affairs with him in a much happier frame of mind. He had arranged for his younger brother, Charles, to go to Venables. His stepfather had given Charles £50 to settle his debts, possibly in anticipation of receiving Buxton's views on his behaviour towards the boy. On his departure from Weymouth, his mother had ridden with him part of the way to Dorchester and his stepfather all the way. He expatiates upon the pleasure he felt at having been able to put things right for the family. He regrets the slow progress he had recently made with religion, though he took comfort in the thought that actions performed in good faith would be guided by Providence, as well as in the knowledge that the many trials he had experienced in his life had induced in him the habit of prayer. He describes the rest of his journey to Exmouth and the condition of her sister Rachel, who had been ill. (Memoir, p. 55.)