In point of fact, I do not think he quite realised that the old order had passed away when he was a mere boy, and that the new was to be permanent, if not everlasting.

If he had, he would have acted very differently, I am sure, and my present duty would have been much easier than it is.

Are you quite certain that you understand that ?' Angela was quite certain that she did, and nodded quietly, though she could not see how her father's political convictions could affect her own present situation.
'I have no doubt,' continued the Princess, 'that he brought you up to consider yourself the heiress of all his fortune, though not of the title, which naturally goes to the eldest male heir.

Am I right ?' 'He never told me anything about my inheritance,' Angela replied.
'So much the better.

It will be easier for me to explain your rather unusual position.