It was kindness, but I am sure that it was unnecessary." "You are not very lucid," she murmured.

"It is because I am a great heiress, then, that you go off fishing for three weeks without saying good-bye; that you leave our next meeting to happen by chance in the last place I should have expected to see you?
What do you think of me, Mr.Andrew?
Do you imagine that I am of my stepmother's world, or ever could be?
Have the hours we have spent together taught you nothing different ?" "You are a child," he answered evasively.

"You do not know as yet to what world you will belong.

It is as your stepmother said to me.

With your fortune you may marry into one of the great families of Europe.
You might almost take a part in the world's history.