I shall not tell her because I might do more harm than good.
But you may know." "That would make no difference to me," he said.
"Very likely not, but I wish you to know it.

What troubles me is that she will have to pay so much out of it for legacy duty.

I might leave it all to you and you could give it her." An honester or more religious or better woman than old Lady Ushant there was not in Cheltenham, but it never crossed her conscience that it would be wrong to cheat the revenue.

It may be doubted whether any woman has ever been brought to such honesty as that.
On the next morning Morton went away without saying another word in private to Mary Masters and she was left to her quiet life with the old lady.

To an ordinary visitor nothing could have been less exciting, for Lady Ushant very seldom went out and never entertained company.