Still, the legacy may not be useless.

I shall make it legally secure as soon as I get to Edinburg.

In any case you are quite safe, for I have mentioned you to my heir." "Your heir! Who do you mean ?" interrupted Captain Bruce, thrown off his guard by excessive surprise.
The earl said, with a little dignity of manner, "It is scarcely needful to answer your question.

The title, you are aware, will be extinct; I meant the successor to my landed property." "Do I know the gentleman ?" "I named no gentleman." "Not surely a lady?
Not--" a light suddenly breaking in upon him, so startling that it overthrew all his self-control, and even his good breeding.

"It can not possibly be Miss Helen Cardross ?" "Captain Bruce," said the earl, the angry color flashing all over his pale face, "I was simply communicating a message to you; there was no need for any farther questioning." "I beg your pardon, Lord Cairnforth," returned the other, perceiving how great a mistake he had made.