Are you ?" She smoothed her crumpled skirts, and looked steadily at the tip of her brown shoe.
"One of the greatest in Europe," she answered.

"No one knows how rich I am.

You see all the money was left to me when I was six years old, and it is so strictly tied up that no one has had power to touch a single penny until I am of age.

That is why it has gone on increasing and increasing." "And when are you of age ?" he asked.
"Next year," she answered.
"By that time, I imagine," Andrew continued, "your stepmother will have sold you to some broken-down hanger-on of hers.

Haven't you any other relations, Miss Jeanne ?" She laughed softly.
"You are a ridiculous person," she said.