"It was because I was nobody--less than that, if what I thought was true.

There was your position to think of.

You were to come into the title--my father told me that before." "Damn the title!" the young man burst out furiously.

"I told you that day I would have nothing to do with it.

Why did you think about that ?" "Because I've heard of nothing else all my life, I suppose," she rejoined with the ghost of a smile.