They'll interest ye." "Yes, I will, some day," said she, rising.
"Nonsense, open them now.

You ought to learn a little of such matters.
A young lady of education should not be ignorant of money affairs altogether.

Suppose you should be left a widow some day, with your husband's title-deeds and investments thrown upon your hands--" "Don't say that, father--title-deeds; it sounds so vain!" "It does not.

Come to that, I have title-deeds myself.

There, that piece of parchment represents houses in Sherton Abbas." "Yes, but--" She hesitated, looked at the fire, and went on in a low voice: "If what has been arranged about me should come to anything, my sphere will be quite a middling one." "Your sphere ought not to be middling," he exclaimed, not in passion, but in earnest conviction.