Adam Scott listens to the reading of his the contents nothing + father's will, a ware that can only be meagre. The colonel, afterall, had to leave except a letter he had never opened himself. - a letter that can name only bring further disgrace to the family
Ago inst his mother's advice, Adam opens the letter, and immediately realizes his life can never be the same again. The contents leave him with. no choice but to follow course his father would have described as of honour a mother