"Is he tiring of me?" thought Ella.
"Shall you take Mr. Denison's advice, and let the matter of the succession drop?" resumed Conroy, after a pause.
"Certainly not. You would not wish me to, would you?"
"No. I think if any fraud was enacted, it should be traced out and exposed. I have always said so. But, do you know why I have chiefly wished it?"
"Why have you?"
"For your own peace, dear. I see you will have none until the matter shall be set at rest."
"That is true; that is true," she impressively answered. "But, oh, Edward, what can we do? What can we do more than we have already done?"
"Nothing--that I see at present. It does not much matter, one way or the other."
"Do you mean that my title to the estate, or non-title, does not matter?"
"Not much, I say."