It drove me mad to have her rob--_us_." At that "us" Adelaide fixed her gaze on his for an instant.

And what he saw in her eyes silenced him--silenced him on one subject forever.
He left for Chicago without seeing either his sister or his mother again.

His impulse was to renounce to his mother his share of his father's estate.

But one does not act hastily upon an impulse to give up nearly a million dollars.

On reflection he decided against such expensive and futile generosity.