Of course it was an event which would naturally have consequences; her imagination had more than once rested upon this fact during her stay at Gardencourt.
But it had been one thing to foresee such a matter mentally and another to stand among its massive records.

The idea of a distribution of property--she would almost have said of spoils--just now pressed upon her senses and irritated her with a sense of exclusion.

I am far from wishing to picture her as one of the hungry mouths or envious hearts of the general herd, but we have already learned of her having desires that had never been satisfied.

If she had been questioned, she would of course have admitted--with a fine proud smile--that she had not the faintest claim to a share in Mr.Touchett's relics.

"There was never anything in the world between us," she would have said.