But the Tynns are thoroughly trustworthy." "It must have been Mrs.Verner----" "Hush, mother! I cannot listen to that, even from you.

Mrs.Verner was in her bed--never out of it; she knew nothing whatever of the codicil.
And, if she had, you will, I hope, do her the justice to believe that she would be incapable of meddling with it." "She benefits by its loss, at any rate," bitterly rejoined Lady Verner.
"Her son does.

But that he does was entirely unknown to her.

She never knew that Mr.Verner had willed the estate away from me; she never dreamed but that I, and no other, would be his successor.

The accession of Frederick Massingbird is unwelcome to her, rather than the contrary; he has no right to it, and she feels that he has not.