26/38 I, who don't pretend to be very disinterested in money matters, think that she is quite right. No doubt Aunt Greenow may marry again, but friends with forty thousand pounds are always agreeable." "I don't believe that Kate thinks much of that," said Alice. Poor Kate is not a rich woman, or, I fear, likely to become one. She doesn't seem to dream of getting married, and her own fortune is less than a hundred a year." "Girls who never dream of getting married are just those who make the best marriages at last," said Alice. She is the best sister a man ever had." "Indeed she is." "And I have done nothing for her as yet. |