"The next holder of the title, after me, will be my brother, and his son will succeed him." Little Mr.Pendleton looked questioningly at his brother-in-law.
"A similar question was on my lips," he said hesitatingly.

"I know very little of such matters, but in view of our family's probable entry into the ranks of the old nobility I have deemed it my duty to make myself acquainted, to some extent, with the history of the Turrald title and peerage law.

It seems a very complicated business--peerage law, I mean--in the case of baronies by writ, but I certainly gathered the impression that a sole daughter can succeed, although several daughters are regarded as coheirs." "My daughter cannot succeed to the Turrald title," rejoined Robert Turold.
The words seemed to be wrung out of him reluctantly.
"It is not for me to question your knowledge--your great knowledge--of English peerage law, Robert," pursued Mr.Pendleton with a kind of timid persistence.

"But I brought a book down with me in the train in which I remember reading that the right of a single daughter to succeed to a barony by writ had been well established by the Clifton case and several others.

I am not precisely aware what the Clifton case is, but I've no doubt that you are well versed in the particulars of it.