Crossword-Solution: HANDOVER 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Handover seemed to belong pretty much to his own rank of life; he was appalled at the thought of bidding her scrub floors and wash plates; and indeed it had begun to dawn upon him that, for a man with more than nine hundred a year, he was living in a needlessly uncomfortable way.

Handover's present condition of vagabond pauper might be traceable to his marriage with a woman who had never learnt the elements of domestic duty.

Mrs Handover, requested to prepare tea for a semi-ceremonious occasion, was at once beset with misgivings, and the first sight of the strangers plunged her into profound despondency.

How the aspect of his little world was changing! A year ago, what things more improbable than that he should win Alma Frothingham for a wife, and become the cordial friend of Mary Abbott? When the revelation could be postponed no longer, he made known to Mrs Handover that he was about to be married.

For an instant they looked each other over, and then Berks, ducking his head and rushing in with a handover-hand style of hitting, bored Jim down into his corner.