A bride at her husband's death-bed, widowed before she had ever been a wife, what experience had she?
All her life so far had been devoted to the girl who stood there confronting her, and to the brother.

What did she know of men ?--of whether she might be capable of loving some man more suitable?
She had not given herself the chance.

She never would, now.
There was no selfishness in Kathleen Severn.

But there was much in the Seagrave twins.

The very method of their bringing up inculcated it; they had never had any chance to be otherwise.