But he did not tell it.

Instead of telling it he thought of Lady Ongar's beauty, of his own early love, of what might have been his had he not gone to Stratton.

I think he thought, if not of her wealth, yet of the power and place which would have been his were it now open to him to ask her for her hand.

When he had declared that he did not want his cousin's inheritance, he had spoken the simple truth.

He was not covetous of another's money.