"Then that you will never have. While I retain my powers of speech
you shall not marry a pauper who has only asked you for the sake of
your money."
"He did not ask me; I asked him," said Helena, mischievously; "and he is
not a beggar. His uncle has bought him a partnership, and is going to
leave him his money; and he will be here himself to-morrow, to tell you
all about his prospects."
At first, Miss Blake refused to see me; but after a time she relented,
and, thankful, perhaps, to have once again anyone over whom she could
tyrannise, treated her niece's future husband--as Helena declared--most
shamefully.
"But you two must learn to agree, for there shall be no quarrelling in
our house," added the pretty autocrat.
"You needn't trouble yourself about that, Helena," said her aunt.
"He'll be just like all the rest. If he's civil to me before marriage,
he won't be after. He will soon find out there is no place in the house,
or, for that matter, in the world, for Susan Blake"; and my enemy, for
the first time in my memory, fairly broke down and began to whimper.
"Miss Blake," I said, "how can I convince you that I never dreamt, never
could dream of asking you and Helena to separate?"
"See that, now, and he calls you Helena already," said the lady,
reproachfully.
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