Again she did not contradict him, while she privately determined to write to Walter herself that very day and warn him that she was not a party to any suggestions which Daniel might make as to Berkeley Hill.
And Daniel was privately telling himself that it would not be any time at all before he would contrive to get over into his own hands that entire estate.
"Also," he said to her, "I shall claim for you one half of all the contents of the house, the books, pictures, china, silver, furniture——"
"Butler," inserted Margaret.
"Well, we'll leave them the butler," grinned Daniel. "He appeared to be more out of repair than anything else on the place."
The bare suggestion of bringing their family heirlooms into such a setting as that of Daniel's New Munich house seemed to Margaret like horrible sacrilege.
"I'd like to see anybody make Harriet strip Berkeley Hill of half its belongings!" she smiled.
"But if half its belongings are yours?"
"Uncle Osmond never meant them to be taken from the old home."
"His will doesn't say so, does it?"