"The house will be open to you just the same."
"I shall not go there. I shall see Lady Glencora in town, of course; but I shall not go to Matching; and as to Gatherum Castle, I would not spend another week there, if they would give it me. You haven't heard of his will?"
"No;—not a word. I hope he remembered you,—to mention your name. You hardly wanted more."
"Just so. I wanted no more than that."
"It was made, perhaps, before you knew him."
"He was always making it, and always altering it. He left me money, and jewels of enormous value."
"I am so glad to hear it."
"But I have refused to take anything. Am I not right?"
"I don't know why you should refuse."
"There are people who will say that—I was his mistress. If a woman be young, a man's age never prevents such scandal. I don't know that I can stop it, but I can perhaps make it seem to be less probable. And after all that has passed, I could not bear that the Pallisers should think that I clung to him for what I could get. I should be easier this way."