When Henry had worked in the shop before Sylvia's inheritance, he had always given her a certain proportion of his wages and himself defrayed their housekeeping bills.

He began to do so again, and Sylvia accepted everything without comment.

Henry gradually became sure that she did not touch a dollar of her income from her new property for herself.

One day he found on the bureau in their bedroom a book on an Alford savings-bank, and discovered that Sylvia had opened an account therein for Rose.

Sylvia also began to give Rose expensive gifts.