By the will money was left to her, more than would be needed for any possible temporary emergency.

When she knew how it was all arranged,--as far as she did know it,--she was aware that she was a rich woman.

For so clever a woman she was infinitely ignorant as to the possession and value of money and land and income,--though, perhaps, not more ignorant than are most young girls under twenty-one.

As for the Scotch property,--she thought that it was her own, for ever, because there could not now be a second son,--and yet was not quite sure whether it would be her own at all if she had no son.

Concerning that sum of money left to her, she did not know whether it was to come out of the Scotch property or be given to her separately,--and whether it was to come annually or to come only once.