They travelled about for a while on the Continent, and she told me once she enjoyed every minute of it! And then her health began to give way, and they took this house at Redsands.

They chose it because Mr.Varick knew something of the doctor there--he didn't know him very well, but they became very great friends, in fact such friends that poor Milly left him a legacy--I think it was five hundred pounds.
Dr.Panton was most awfully good to her, but of course he hadn't the slightest idea that she was leaving him anything.

I never saw a man more surprised than he was when I told him about it the day of her death.
Mr.Varick asked me to do so, and he was quite overcome." She smiled.

Five hundred pounds evidently did not seem very much to Miss Brabazon.
"I suppose she had a good deal of money ?" The late Mrs.Varick's friend hesitated a moment, then answered at last, "I think she had about twenty thousand pounds--at least I know that that sum was mentioned in the _Times_ list of wills." The other was startled--disagreeably startled.

She had understood, from something Lionel had said to her, that he now had five thousand a year.
"This place must be worth a good deal," she observed.