It has been a great blow for me, Rupert.

I had hoped that in the time to come you would be master of the Chace, and of all the broad acres I owned when young; now it will never be.

This house and the home farm are mine, and will be yours, lad; but the outlying land will never come back to the Chace again, but will go to swell the Haugh estate on the other side.

My lady can leave it as she likes.

I have begged her to have it settled upon you, but she has declined.