I want you to seem to be its master, as well as be its master, until Millicent comes of age, if not longer.

Her name is Millicent Conyers Thorndyke.

I wish her to be called Millicent Conyers, and to appear as your ward, and not as your niece and heiress of the property.

If there is one thing in the world I have a greater horror of than another, it is of a girl being married for her money.

I don't suppose that anyone knows that I have a daughter--at any rate, none beyond a few Indian chums.