"You naturally don't want to begin by taking part in a family quarrel, but if YOU take part in it, it won't be one.

You don't know yourself what weight you carry over there, and no one would have the right to say you did it except out of the purest kindness.

Don't you see that Jim and his father would admire you all the more for it?
Miss Vertrees, listen! Don't you see we OUGHT to do it, you and I?
Do you suppose Robert Lamhorn cares a snap of his finger for her?
Do you suppose a man like him would LOOK at Edith Sheridan if it wasn't for the money ?" And again Sibyl's emotion rose to the surface.

"I tell you he's after nothing on earth but to get his finger in that old man's money-pile, over there, next door! He'd marry ANYBODY to do it.

Marry Edith ?" she cried.