"No; what good could I do?"
"And Captain Aylmer is still there, I suppose?"
"I left him at Perivale."
There was a slight pause, as Mrs. Askerton hesitated before she asked her next question. "May I be told anything about the will?" she said.
"The weary will! If you knew how I hated the subject you would not ask me. But you must not think I hate it because it has given me nothing."
"Given you nothing?"
"Nothing! But that does not make me hate it. It is the nature of the subject that is so odious. I have now told you all,—everything that there is to be told, though we were to talk for a week. If you are generous you will not say another word about it."
"But I am so sorry."
"There,—that's it. You won't perceive that the expression of such sorrow is a personal injury to me. I don't want you to be sorry."
"How am I to help it?"