Molly Gaverick--who is a cat--said she knew for certain Willoughby Maule came to England with the fixed intention of marrying for birth and position or for money, and that he fancied, in me, he'd found both--she says that he took his impressions of us from the paragraphs in the Society papers and thought us much richer an bigger than we are, and that now he knows better he thinks it safer to drop birth and make sure of money.
The Bagallays made theirs in nails.

Last year Evelyn Mary came into a fortune of a quarter of a million.

I'm told that it's absolutely at her own disposal.

She was an only child.

A quarter of a million would be an immense temptation to a poor and ambitious man.
And yet, Joan, I CAN'T believe that Will has been actuated by wholly sordid motives.