"I do not know what came over me," said she; "I never sing." And she looked with a severe and sombre gaze into the flames before her.
"Hermione, have you no right to joy, or even to give joy to others?"
"Tell me more about the case that is interesting you. Supposing you found Harriet Smith or her children?"
"I would show them the will and put them in the way of securing their fortune."
"I should like to see that will."
"Would you?"
"Yes, it would interest me."
"You do not look very interested."
"Do I not? Yet I am, I assure you."
"Then you shall see it, or rather this newspaper copy of it which I happen to have in my pocket-book."