The ground being her freehold, she can unfortunately do what she likes with it; the same with her personal property.

The thing has gone so far that a Manchester firm of architects have prepared plans; they are lying about in her room here." Mallard regarded the speaker with humorous wonder.
"And the fact is," pursued Spence, "that such an undertaking as this will impoverish her.

She is not so wealthy as to be able to lay out thousands of pounds and leave her position unaltered." "I suppose she lives only for her religious convictions ?" "I don't profess to understand her.

Her character is not easily sounded.

But no doubt she has the puritanical spirit in a rather rare degree.