"A receiver—what for?"
"To receive the rents in payment of the debt, if debt there be."
"What, all of them?"
"Yes all; but, do not be too much cast down, remember you have, few, but friends sincere; who will stick by you, and—"
"Dear Mr. Winter, let us be silent for a moment, I want to collect my thoughts."
They walked on in silence for some time.
"Then from what you tell me, before long we may be left quite penniless! Are you sure that this is a true picture of our case? and that your hatred of law does not color it!"
"Heaven grant your conjecture may be right," cried Winter. "I only tell you my own, and I think your grandfather's, real view of the matter. I have been long wishing for an opportunity to do so. I dreaded the effect of the shock on your sensitive and imaginative nature, and intended to have broken it to you gradually."
"But," continued Kate, not noticing the latter part of his speech, "shall we have nothing left? no money at all! good God! And grandpapa, what am I to do for him—and nurse? Do not think me very weak, but I cannot help the terror I feel."