You have some scheme in this." "Whatever scheme I may have, you can frustrate by making another will.

What can I gain by telling you this?
I only do so to induce you to be more explicit in naming your heir." They both remained silent for a while, during which the baronet poured out from his hidden resource a glass of brandy and swallowed it.
"When a man is taken aback suddenly by such tidings as these, he must take a drop of something, eh, doctor ?" Dr Thorne did not see the necessity; but the present, he felt, was no time for arguing the point.
"Come, Thorne, where is the girl?
You must tell me that.

She is my niece, and I have a right to know.

She shall come here, and I will do something for her.

By the Lord! I would as soon she had the money as any one else, if she is anything of a good 'un;--some of it, that is.
Is she a good 'un ?" "Good!" said the doctor, turning away his face.