He did not perceive that his millions barred Sir Tancred's path.
Dorothy perceived it only too soon.

She found the growth of her intimacy with Sir Tancred checked; it did not lessen, indeed, but it did not increase.

A shadow had fallen across it, and he no longer talked to her in the tone of half-affectionate familiarity he had grown to use with her, he was more reserved.

She chafed at it, but she was not greatly downcast; she only wished that the kidnappers had had the grace to leave her in her part of the penniless governess, a few weeks longer.

She felt that, then, all the millions in the world would not have barred Sir Tancred's way.