'I never let things run to that length; but then I had no fortune. But seriously, Clara, were all these people objectionable?'
'Do you think one could marry any man, only because he was not objectionable? There was no harm in one or two; but I was not going to have anything to say to them.'
'Really, Clara, you make me curious. Had you made any resolution?'
'I know only two men whom I could have trusted to fulfil my conditions,' said Clara.
'Conditions?'
'Of course! that if Cheveleigh was to belong to any of us, it should be to the rightful heir.'
'My dear, noble Clara! was that what kept you from thinking of marriage?'
'Wasn't it a fine thing to have such a test? Not that I ever came to trying it. Simple no answered my purpose. I met no one who tempted me to make the experiment.'
'Two men!' said Isabel, 'if you had said one, it would have been marked.'
'Jem and Louis, of course,' said Clara.