“Louisa, when Gerard comes he will send Ursula back to her father.”
“I doubt it. You know, I have always said—”
“Don’t say it again; it sounds like—like blasphemy.”
The Dowager seemed for the moment to recover all her intellectual force.
“He will take back the Horst—do you hear? They dare not refuse it him after what he has done. And he will marry money. Then nothing will be left me to do after I have seen him except to finish my Memoir before I depart in peace. I should like to tell Theodore that the Memoir was finished.”
“If he is going to prove so strong a man,” replied Aunt Louisa, “I think I shall leave him what little money I possess. But what is that? A mere drop in the ocean. I am a poor woman, Cécile, as you know.”
CHAPTER XLIII
ARRESTED