Her grandfather was ill with pneumonia, and she is sincerely devoted to him, I believe." "Was there any mention of her in Uncle Jonathan's will ?" "None whatever.

He left instructions with Mr.Chamberlayne, however, which are to be made known next April on Molly's twenty-first birthday.
It is all rather mysterious, but we only know that he owned considerable property in the far West, which he left away from us and in trust to his lawyer.

I suppose he thought your mother would not be alive when the girl came of age; for the doctors had agreed that she had only a few years to live at the utmost." "What in the devil did my poor mother have to do with it ?" She hesitated an instant, positively scowling in her perplexity.
"Only that I think--I believe your Uncle Jonathan would have married the girl's mother--Janet Merryweather--but for your mother's influence." "How in the deuce! You mean he feared the effect on her ?" "He broke it to her once--his intention, I mean--and for several days afterwards we quite despaired of her life.

It was then that she made him promise--he was quite distracted with remorse for he adored Angela--that he would never allude to it again while she was alive.

We thought then that it would be only for a short while, but she has outlived him ten years in spite of her heart disease.