[angrily]

The "people"?

PIKE

Yes; the whole gang. Can't you see how [pg 110] they're counting on it? It's in their faces, in their ways! This Earl—don't you see he's counting on living on you? Do you think the son would get that settlement? Why, a Terre Hut pickpocket could get it away from him—let alone his old man! What do you think would become of the "settlement"?

ETHEL

Part of it would go to the restoration of Hawcastle Hall and part to Glenwood Priory.

PIKE

Glenwood Priory?

ETHEL

That is part of the estate where Almeric and I will live until Lord Hawcastle's death.