Lady Carbury was taken greatly by surprise.  It seemed to her at the moment that this young lady, knowing that her own father was ruined, was looking out for another home, and was doing so with a considerable amount of audacity.  She gave Marie little credit either for affection or for generosity; but yet she was unwilling to answer her roughly.  ’I am afraid,’ she said, ‘that it would not be suitable.’

’Why should it not be suitable?  They can’t take my money away.  There is enough for all of us even if papa wanted to live with us;—­but it is mine.  It is ever so much;—­I don’t know how much, but a great deal.  We should be quite rich enough.  I ain’t...