"Just so! It is very surprising—I assure you that it amazed me very much—to find that he left so little."
"I can't understand it at all, Solon. Only a year before he died he told me that he considered himself worth fifteen thousand dollars."
"People are often deluded as to the amount of their possessions. I have known many such cases."
"But I have only received seventy-five dollars, and there were two heirs—Mary and myself. According to that father must have left only one hundred and fifty dollars."
"Of course he left more, but there were debts—and funeral expenses and doctor's bills."
"I understand that, but it seems so little."
"It was very little, and I felt sorry, not only on your account, but on Mary's. Of course, as my wife, she will be provided for, but it would have been comfortable for her to inherit a fair sum."
"You can imagine what it is to me who am not amply provided for. I thought there might be five thousand dollars coming to me."
Solon Talbot shook his head.
"That anticipation was very extravagant!" he said.