"Be reverent!" Daniel, looking shocked, reproved her. "And I don't see where his sense of honour comes in in his behaviour as to your property!"
"Don't bother about my property, Daniel," Margaret wearily advised. "It's not worth bothering about."
"It's all you have, though," Daniel ruefully retorted.
Margaret offered no reply to this.
"I want you to write to Walter, Margaret, and see whether you can get an answer out of him."
"What about?"
"What about? Haven't I just been telling you? You write and demand of him why I receive no answer from him to my repeated inquiries as to your property."
"But I have told you all there is to know about it, Daniel."
"Margaret," Daniel patiently answered, "I have already explained to you how I can make that estate yield you a handsome income."
"By depriving my sister of a home? No, thank you."