After dinner that evening Mr Utterson went into his office and unlocked a cupboard
He took out an envelope. It contained the will of Doctor Henry Jekyll, and was written in the doctor's own handwriting. "If I die, or if I disappear for more than three months, the will began, "I wish to leave everything I own to my dear friend Edward Hyde.' This will had both worried and annoyed Mr Utterson. To a lawyer it was an unusual and dangerous kind of will. It was bad enough when Edward Hyde was only an unknown name, but now that the lawyer knew something about Hyde, the will worried him more than ever. It had seemed like madness before, now it began to seem shameful. With a heavy heart Mr Utterson replaced the envelope in the cupboard, put on his coat and went to see