"Oh, Lily, it's unjust; it's cruel--Grace Stepney must FEEL she has no right to all that money!" "Any one who knew how to please Aunt Julia has a right to her money," Miss Bart rejoined philosophically.
"But she was devoted to you--she led every one to think--" Gerty checked herself in evident embarrassment, and Miss Bart turned to her with a direct look.

"Gerty, be honest: this will was made only six weeks ago.
She had heard of my break with the Dorsets ?" "Every one heard, of course, that there had been some disagreement--some misunderstanding----" "Did she hear that Bertha turned me off the yacht ?" "Lily!" "That was what happened, you know.

She said I was trying to marry George Dorset.

She did it to make him think she was jealous.

Isn't that what she told Gwen Stepney ?" "I don't know--I don't listen to such horrors." "I MUST listen to them--I must know where I stand." She paused, and again sounded a faint note of derision.