If my widow marries Lambert, she loses my millions, and they go to--" He checked himself abruptly.

"Never mind who gets them.

It is a person in whom you can take no manner of interest." Miss Greeby pushed the point of her bludgeon into the spongy ground, and looked thoughtful.

"If Lambert loves Agnes still, which I don't believe," she observed, after a pause, "he would marry her even if she hadn't a shilling.

Your will excluding him as her second husband is merely the twisting of a rope of sand, Pine." "You forget," said the man quickly, "that I declared also, he would have to marry her in the face of Garvington's opposition." "In what way ?" "Can't you guess?
Garvington only allowed me to marry his sister because I am a wealthy man.