"I say she had,—even though she may not have made a promise. I say she had. Did not everybody think that you were to have her money?"
"I don't know what people may have thought. Nobody has had any right to think about it at all."
"That is nonsense, Clara. You know that I expected it;—that you expected it yourself."
"No;—no, no!"
"Clara,—how can you tell me that?"
"Papa, I knew that she intended to leave me nothing. She told me so when I was there in the spring."
"She told you so?"
"Yes, papa. She told me that Frederic Aylmer was to have all her property. She explained to me everything that she meant to do, and I thought that she was right."
"And why was not I told when you came home?"
"Dear papa!"