"Certainly. There are no conditions. All will be yours absolutely."
"Thank you. I am very much obliged. You will add further to my obligations to you if you will kindly hurry forward all matters in connection with the will. I am most anxious to have the money in my own hands."
"Permit me to explain once more: I take it for granted you have not had leisure to read the copy of the will I forwarded to you?"
She bowed.
"In wills there are often very stupid conditions and provisions which govern the disposal of the property. In this case there are no conditions or provisions, so that you enter into possession quite untrammelled. You understand me when I say quite untrammelled?"
"I understand."
"So that if at any time it seemed well to you to----" He stopped. She had begun to rise, and he did not know whether it would be wise to complete the sentence or not.
She stood before him holding out her hand as she finished what he had begun--"To marry again I should run no risk of forfeiting the money."
"Precisely."
She smiled.