“And your child has refused to answer you in any way?”
“Yes.”
“You are sure that she got the message?”
The old man looked into his physician’s eyes, and remembered that Tom Cooper had asked that same question.
“As sure as a man can be who has to confide his affairs to a third party.”
“And that party your nephew?”
“Yes.”
“Would you think me impertinent, my dear Mr. Benson, if I should say that I believe your daughter has never received your letters, and another thing I would ask you: How have you made your will?”
“In my nephew’s favor.”
“And do you think that right to your daughter? What if she never received your letters, or if she had died and left a child?”