Should there be no son, John Eustace, the brother, would inherit the estates in Yorkshire which had been the backbone of the Eustace wealth.
Should no child be born, John Eustace would inherit everything that had not been settled upon or left to the widow.

Sir Florian had made a settlement immediately before his marriage, and a will immediately afterwards.

Of what he had done then, nothing had been altered in those sad Italian days.

The settlement had been very generous.

The whole property in Scotland was to belong to Lizzie for her life,--and after her death was to go to a second son, if such second son there should be.