No love for Rawdon Court was in her heart.

She would rather have advanced the money to buy an American estate.

She had been little pleased at Fred's mortgage on the old place, but to the American Rawdons she felt it would prove a white elephant; and the appeal to Ethel was advised because she thought it would amount to nothing.

In the first place, the Judge had the strictest idea of the sacredness of the charge committed to him as guardian of his daughter's fortune.

In the second, Ethel inherited from her Yorkshire ancestry an intense sense of the value and obligations of money.