Was Wenham very rich, Jerry ?" The man laughed.
"Oh, he was very rich indeed!" he assured her.

"It is terrible that you should be left like this.

We will talk about it together presently, you and I.In the meantime, you must let me be your banker." "Dear Jerry," she whispered, "you were always generous." "You have not spoken of the little prude--dear Miss Beatrice," he reminded her suddenly.
Elizabeth sighed.
"Beatrice was a great trial from the first," she declared.

"You know how she disliked you both--she was scarcely even civil to Wenham, and she would never have come to Europe with us if father hadn't insisted upon it.

We took her down to Cornwall with us and there she became absolutely insupportable.