There are you and I, rich people, and no one to leave our money to--no one to carry on your name--no one we care a rap about to benefit by my work and your brother's fortune--no one of the family to hand over Little Beeding to." Both of them were silent after he had spoken.

He had touched upon their one great sorrow.

Margaret herself had her roots deep in the soil of Little Beeding.

It was hateful to her that the treasured house should ever pass to strangers, as it would do if this the last branch of the family failed.
"But Stella Ballantyne was married for seven years," she said at last, "and there were no children." "No, that's true," replied Pettifer.

"But it does not follow that with a second marriage there will be none.