She'll rob her brother and her mother!" Janet was plainly reminding herself that she must not forget that she was a lady and a marchioness.

In a manner in which quiet dignity was mingled with a delicate soul's shrinking from such brawling vulgarity as this that was being forced upon her, she said, looking at Adelaide: "Papa never intended that my dowry should be taken out of my share.

It was a present." She looked calmly at her mother.

"Just like your jewels, mamma." She turned her clear, luminous eyes upon Ross.

"Just like the opportunities he gave you to get your independent fortune." Mrs.Whitney, trembling so that she could scarcely articulate, retorted: "At the time he said, and I told you, it was to come out of your share.
And how you thanked me and kissed me and--" She stretched toward Ellen her shaking old woman's hands, made repellent by the contrasting splendor of magnificent black pearl rings.