19/29 I suppose the interest of this 15,000 pounds would be enough for Mrs.Cunningham and I to live comfortably on in London ?" "Yes," Mark said; "it will, at 5 per cent, bring in 750 pounds a year." "Then I shall remain Millicent Conyers to the world. There is nothing to prevent that, is there ?" she said almost defiantly. "The rents of this estate might accumulate. I suppose the solicitors would see after that; and as I shall be away it will, of course, make no difference to me. Were I to stay in the neighborhood I could not consent to live as my father did, in a false position; but even then I might give out that the property had only been left to my father during his lifetime, and that it had now gone elsewhere, without saying whom it had gone to. |