"And you need never have taken any trouble about this stupid money, after all? You are independent of all these people?"
"Yes," he answered, with a smile, "entirely so."
"I am so glad,—so glad, you do not know," said she, clasping her hands on his shoulder. "You know I hated to feel you were wrangling with those lawyers for money;" and she laughed a little scornfully.
"We will have it, all the same," said Claudius, smiling, "and you shall do as you like with it, beloved. It was honestly got, and will bring no ill luck with it. And now I have told you, I say, let us go to my father's house and make it ours." He spoke proudly and fondly. "Let me welcome my dear lady where her match was never welcomed before."
"Yes, dear, we will go there."
"Perhaps the Duke will lend us the yacht?" said Claudius.
"Yes," said Margaret, and there was a tinge of sadness in her voice, "yes, perhaps the Duke will lend us the yacht."