"There will be more than sufficient to meet all the obligations of the banking house.

Having some knowledge of Mr.
Whitmore's holdings, I feel confident in saying the estate will amount to upward of ten million dollars." The news did not revive Mrs.Collins's spirits.

For days now, every new expectation had been succeeded by a new disappointment.

This woman, who through all the years of her harrowing married life, had never faltered in her conduct; who had never wavered in the high standard of her womanhood; whose actions had ever been inspired by the noblest ideals of her sex;--this woman had been selected by fate as the victim of its unrelenting wrath.
The rapid succession of misfortunes which had been visited on her had made her wary of anything that savored of a more favorable providence.
So she received the confirmation of her inheritance with a self-pitying stare, as if it must, of necessity, hide some new form of anguish.
"Don't you realize what it means ?" Luckstone tried to encourage her.

"It means that the bank is saved.