She's got forty thousand pounds!' One can't pretend to be wiser or better than one's relatives.

And after all what can I expect from her money ?" "Nothing, I should say." "Not a halfpenny.

I'm nearly thirty and she's only forty, and of course she'll marry again.

I will say of myself, too, that no person living cares less for money." "I should think no one." "Yet one sticks to one's rich relatives.

It's the way of the world." Then she paused a moment.