That's
nothing. She's been amusing herself with him, and if she thinks he
resents it, so much the better for him."
"But is he"--
She hesitated as if not knowing how best to frame her question.
"He is a handsome creature, as you know if you remember him," the
visitor said, taking up the word. "He is well born, he is well bred, if
a little countrified. He's been shut up with monks and other mouldy
things, and needs a little knocking about in the world; but I am very
fond of him."
"Then you think"--
"I think that whoever gets Bee will get a treasure; but I am not sure
that she is any too good for my cousin. He hasn't much money, unless he
gets a little fortune that ought to have been his, and which he has
some hope of. I mean to give him something myself one of these days, if
he behaves himself; but of course he hasn't any idea of that."
"Bee will have all the Canton money, and can do as she likes."
Mrs. Staggchase looked down at the carpet as if studying the pattern.
"Perhaps," she returned.
"What do you mean by that?"
"If I know Maurice Wynne, the fact that she has money will make him
very slow to speak.
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