"Ay, very many, though papa looks after them as much as he can. Dougal is out of his parish, or he would have know him. Papa knows every body, and takes care of every body, as far as possible."
"So ought I—or I must do it when I am older," said the earl, thoughtfully.
"There will be no difficulty about that when you come of age and enter on your property."
"Is it a very large property? For I never heard or inquired."
"Very large."
"Show me its boundary; there is the map."
Helen took it down and drew with a pencil the limits of the Cairnforth estates. They extended along the whole peninsula, and far up into the main land.
"There, Lord Cairnforth, every bit of this is yours."
"To do exactly what I like with?"
"Certainly."