Does his will provide for his children ?" "His will provided for them, when he made it." "When he made it!" (Something of her natural bluntness broke out in her manner as she repeated the answer.) "Does it provide for them now ?" "It does not." She snatched the will from his hand, and threw it into a corner of the room.

"You mean well," she said; "you wish to spare me--but you are wasting your time, and my strength.

If the will is useless, there let it lie.

Tell me the truth, Mr.Pendril--tell it plainly, tell it instantly, in your own words!" He felt that it would be useless cruelty to resist that appeal.

There was no merciful alternative but to answer it on the spot.
"I must refer you to the spring of the present year, Miss Garth.