Position?
that was theirs also.

Consideration?
ah, what consideration had I to give?
I turned from them with distaste.
"My cousin Evelyn gave me no help.

She was a proud woman and loved my money and my expectations as much as she did me.
"'If you must marry another woman to retain your wealth, marry, said she, 'but do not marry one of my associates.

I will have no rival in my own empire; your wife must be a plainer and a less aspiring woman than Evelyn Blake.

Yet do not discredit your name,--which is mine,' she would always add.
"Meanwhile the days flew by.