"No, sir, I haven't. I am as much in the dark as you are about the matter."
"Then I fail to understand why you have come to see me," said Sandal, coldly.
"Why?" Lemby grew angry. "I want to know what Sir Hector has done for my daughter."
"Nothing." Sandal raised his eyebrows. "Why should he do anything."
"My daughter was engaged to marry him, and the marriage settlements were drawn up by you."
"But they were not signed by Sir Hector," Sandal reminded him: "nor did the marriage take place. Well?"
"Well," echoed the pirate, viciously. "Surely Sir Hector has provided for my daughter in his will."
"No, he has not. There is a will dated many years ago, before Sir Hector met your daughter. That will leaves all the property, real and personal, to quite another person."
"Who to?" asked Lemby, rather ungrammatically.
"To Sir Hector's wife."