'It is not wealth you wait for?'
'No.'
'What then, Laura?'
'Nothing.'
'How I shall laugh if the handsome Captain Dalton stirs that now unimpressionable heart of yours.'
'I shall be very glad to meet him,' said Mrs. Trelawney, with a curious hardness in her voice.
'Why?'
'Because I may compel him to love me, Alison,' and as Mrs. Trelawney spoke her eyes flashed with a triumphant glow such as Alison had never seen in them before.
'Compel him?'
'Yes.'