Her face wore its usual look of calm composure.

She was busily thinking, not of her husband's fate, but of her own future.
"Did he leave a will?
And, if so, how much did he leave me ?" she thought.
If there was a will, it was probably in the house, and Mrs.Preston determined to find it, if possible.
"Of course, all ought to come to me and Godfrey," she soliloquized.

"I don't think it is right to leave money to charitable institutions as long as a wife and child are living.

Fortunately, my husband had no brothers or sisters, or perhaps he would have divided the property.

If there is no will, I shall have my thirds, and shall have the control of Godfrey's property till he comes of age.