"Why, it's yours now. Of course it is. Whose else could it be? Don't you understand? You'll find out in that box everything your father didn't tell you."
Mrs. Cragg meant to awaken the girl's curiosity, but her words had a precisely opposite effect.
"Yes, perhaps. But I don't wish to find out anything my father did not wish me to know—anything he did not tell me."
"Really! I never did see such a girl. Why, everybody reads other people's papers after they're dead."
"Do they? I am not sure that I shall. At any rate, I shall not yet—not in a hurry. I think I will wait."
"There might be something or other that wants attending to. How do you know there isn't money inside?"
"No, he would have told me that."
"I suppose you've got the key?"
"I have—his keys." Pattie's eyes were full.
"And you don't mean to unlock it? You don't mean to see what is inside?"