He was going out at the gate when he caught the pleased eyes of Lucy Tempest fixed on him.
"I am so glad," she simply said.

"Do you remember my telling you that you did not look like one who would have to starve on bread-and-cheese." Lionel laughed in the joy of his heart.

"I am glad also, Lucy.

The place is mine by right, and it is just that I should have it." "I have thought it very unfair, all along, that Verner's Pride should belong to _her_ husband, and not to you, after--after what she did to you," continued Lucy, dropping her voice to a whisper.
"Things don't go by fairness, Lucy, in this world," said he, as he went through the gate.

"Stay," he said, turning back from it, a thought crossing his mind.