The chances are that she will not answer that letter, and that for a time there will be silence between you.

Then," she continued, "my advice to you is this: wait until she marries.

You cannot marry her now, she will never be willing, but you can make a very decent fortune out of her when she is married." "In what way ?" he asked.
"Hold those letters as a rod over her, threaten to bring an action against her--she will never know that such an action cannot stand; or if that does not do, threaten to show them to her husband.

Rather than let him know, rather than let Lord and Lady Ridsdale know, she will give you thousands of pounds." Allan Lyster for one-half moment shrank from his sister.
"It seems so very bad," he said.
"Not at all.

She will have more money than she can count; you have a right to some of it.