"Jointly with my sister, yes."
"But that's property, Margaret. How, then, are you receiving your share?"
"I'm not receiving it."
"Why not? I hate that slipshod Southern way of doing business! You ought, of course, to be drawing an income from your half of that place."
"But it yields no income."
"Isn't any of the land cultivated?"
"The land consists of two square miles of woodland about the house. Walter says the place, as it is, couldn't even be rented; and none of us have any money to spend in fixing it up; so there you are. It's a home for Hattie's family, that's all."
"Gracious!"
"Is it a shock to you to find me penniless?" asked Margaret gravely. "Wouldn't you have married me if you had known?"
She was acutely conscious of the fact that since she had married him for a home, she certainly could not judge him very critically if he had married her for a supposed fortune.