One of the nieces, it seems, refuses to come; but there will be two of them to scramble for your aunt's affection." "She has none," declared the boy.
"Or her money, which is the same thing.

The one she likes the best will get the estate." Kenneth smiled, and with the change of expression his face lighted wonderfully.
"Poor Aunt!" he said.

"Almost I am tempted to be sorry for her.

Two girls--fighting one against the other for Elmhurst--and both fawning before a cruel and malicious old woman who could never love anyone but herself." "And her flowers," suggested the lawyer.
"Oh, yes; and perhaps James.

Tell me, why should she love James, who is a mere gardener, and hate me ?" "James tends the flowers, and the flowers are Jane Merrick's very life.