'His father's most singular and unjust one.'
'No.'
'Not even from Roland?'
'No—never, I say!'
'Most strange!'
'You know that I cannot speak of it.'
'Of course not.'
'But mamma may. This estate of Earlshaugh——'
'Is the property by gift of his father to his second wife——'
'That grim woman, Deborah Sharpe?'