You know I have made my will ?" "Yes," replied unconscious Helen, "you told me so." "Mr.Menteith drew it up the last time he was here.

How little we thought it would be really the last time! Ah! Helen, if we could only look forward!" "It is best not," said Helen, earnestly.
"Well, my will is made.

And though in it I left nothing to Mr.Menteith himself, seeing that such a return of his kindness would be very unwelcome, I insisted doing what was equivalent--bequeathing a thousand pounds to each of his children.

Was I right in that?
You do not object"?
"Most assuredly not," answered Helen, though a little surprised at the question.

Still, she was so long accustomed to be consulted by the earl, and to give her opinion frankly and freely on all points, that the surprise was only momentary.
"And, by the way, I mean to leave the same sum--one thousand pounds -- to my cousin, Captain Bruce.