It contained the Harden Library, _the_ Harden Library, one of the finest private collections in the country.

It contained also his cousin Lucia.
He had always loved Court House, but not always his cousin Lucia.

The scholarly descendant of a long line of scholars, Jewdwine knew that he had been a favourite with his grandfather, Sir Joseph Harden, the Master of Lazarus, he was convinced (erroneously) that he was a Harden by blood and by temperament, and of course if he had only been a Harden by name, and not a Jewdwine, Court House and the great Harden Library would have been his instead of his cousin Lucia's.

He knew that his grandfather had wished them to be his.

Lucia's mother was dead long ago; and when his uncle Sir Frederick definitely renounced the domestic life, Lucia and Lucia alone stood between him and the inheritance that should have been his.