She has been a very wicked woman, alluring you into her house with false hopes." "No, papa;--no; I must contradict you.

She had given me no ground for such hope." "I say she had,--even though she may not have made a promise.

I say she had.

Did not everybody think that you were to have her money ?" "I don't know what people may have thought.

Nobody has had any right to think about it at all." "That is nonsense, Clara.