[Norah turns and looks at her without a word.
[Miss Pringle is startled.] Norah! What’s the matter? Isn’t it as much as you thought?
Norah.
Miss Wickham’s left me nothing.
Miss Pringle.
Oh!
Norah.
Not a penny! Oh, it’s cruel. After all, there was no need for her to leave me anything. She gave me board and lodging and thirty pounds a year. If I stayed it was because I chose. She needn’t have promised me anything. She needn’t have prevented me from marrying.
Miss Pringle.
My dear, you could never have married the little assistant. He wasn’t a gentleman.