She has no more claim upon me now than the man in the moon.

If she tries to assert it, she will soon find her mistake." He was beginning to recover his balance, and there was even a hint of his customary complacence audible in his voice as he made the declaration.
"But there is no reason to believe she will," he added.

"She knows very well that she has nothing whatever to gain by it.

Your brother seems to have gathered but a vague idea of the affair.

You had better write and tell him that the Dacre he means is dead.