But tell me, would they have made you a baronet if you hadn't given the subscription ?" Sir John chuckled till his great form shook--he had grown very stout of late years.
"I think you are sharp enough to answer that question for yourself.

I have observed, Isobel, that you know as much of the world as most young girls of your age." "So you bought the thing," she exclaimed with a flash of her grey eyes.
"I thought that honours were given because they were earned." "Did you ?" said Sir John, chuckling again.

"Well, now you know better.
Look here, Isobel, don't be a fool.

Honours, or most of them, like other things, are for those who can pay for them in this way or that.
Nobody bothers how they come so long as they _do_ come.

Now, listen.
Unfortunately, as a girl, you can't inherit this title.