Why, Selina'll 'ave a fortune." Mr.Vickers, sitting with his legs stretched out stiffly before him, tried to think.

"A lot o' good it'll do me," he said, bitterly.

"It's young Joseph Tasker that'll get the benefit of it." Mr.Russell whistled.

"I'd forgot him," he exclaimed, "but I expect she only took him becos she couldn't get anybody else." Mr.Vickers eyed him sternly, but, reflecting that Selina was well able to fight her own battles, forbore to reply.
"She must ha' told him," pursued Mr.Russell, following up a train of thought.

"Nobody in their senses would want to marry Selina for anything else." "Ho! indeed," said Mr.Vickers, coldly.
"Unless they was mad," admitted the other.