As soon as the funeral is over she will come to us.

You have heard, I suppose, of the change in--in her circumstances ?" "Then it is true?
I heard it, but I didn't believe it." Molly had fled suddenly into remoteness--not Reuben's death, but Mr.
Jonathan's "provision," had swept her away from him.

Like other mortals in other crises of experience, she was aware of a helpless, a rebellious, realization of the power, not of fate, but of money.

No other accident of fortune could have detached her so completely from the surroundings in which he had known her.

Though he told himself that to think of wealth as a thing to separate them was to show a sordid brutality of soul, he revolted the next instant from the idea that his love should demand so great a sacrifice.