She found herself weighing the chances of each of them, their nearness to disaster.
"Well," she said, "great fortunes even like yours are not above the chances of the money-markets.

Your fortune, or a great part of it, might go.

What would happen to you then?
You would be a pauper." Jeanne smiled.
"I can see nothing terrifying in that," she answered, "but at the same time I do not think that a fortune such as mine is a very fluctuating affair." "You are right, of course," the Princess said.

"You will be one of the richest young women in the country.

There is nothing to prevent it.