"What do you know about it, Sisily ?" "I have heard of nothing but the title ever since I can remember," she replied.
"I learnt for the first time this afternoon that I was brought down here to rob you," he said gloomily.
"I am glad for your sake if you are to have it--the money," she simply replied.
He answered with a bitter, almost vengeful aspect.
"I would not take the money or the title, if they ever came to me.

They should be yours.

I will show them.

I will let them know that they cannot do what they like with me." He brought out this obscure threat in a savage voice.

"If I had only known--if I had guessed that your father--" He ceased abruptly, with a covert glance, like one fearing he had said too much.
She kept her eyes fixed on the lengthening shadows around the rocks.
"Do not take it so much to heart," she timidly counselled.