"No; I didn't know," she said presently.

"It doesn't matter now, but Timothy never told me.

I thought I hadn't a farthing in the world.

He never mentioned money matters to me at all." Then she laughed faintly.

"I could have lived all by myself in a cottage in Scotland, without being beholden to anybody--on five hundred pounds a year, couldn't I ?" "There is no reason you should not have a cottage in Scotland now, if you fancy one," said John, cheerfully.
"The only memories I have in the world, outside my life in this place, are of my childhood at home," she said.
John suddenly realized how very, very limited her experiences had been, and wondered less at the almost childish simplicity which characterized her, and which in no way marred her natural graciousness and dignity.