"If I had, I shouldn't, perhaps, have been here to take care of you," she said, smiling.
"No; you'd have been like your brother, no doubt. Not that I think there could have been two so bad as he is."
"Oh, grandfather, if he has offended you, you should try to forgive him."
"Try to forgive him! How often have I forgiven him without any trying? Why did he come down here the other day, and insult me for the last time? Why didn't he keep away, as I had bidden him?"
"But you gave him leave to see you, sir."
"I didn't give him leave to treat me like that. Never mind; he will find that, old as I am, I can punish an insult."
"You haven't done anything, sir, to injure him?" said Kate.
"I have made another will, that's all. Do you suppose I had that man here all the way from Penrith for nothing?"
"But it isn't done yet?"
"I tell you it is done. If I left him the whole property it would be gone in two years' time. What's the use of doing it?"