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She used to think that Sir Redmond might get killed down there fighting the Boers, and then Wiltmar would be next in line. But he didn't, and it was Wiltmar who went first. And now oh, it's humiliating, Dick! To be thrown at a man's head " Tears were not far from her voice just then. "I can see she wants you to nab the title. Well, sis, if you don't care for the man "
Dick whistled. "He's 'It, then, is he?" Beatrice had nothing to say. She walked beside Dick and looked at the ground before her. "He doesn't seem a bad sort, sis, and the title will be nice to have in the family, if one cares for such things. Mother does. She was disappointed, I take it, that Wiltmar was a younger son." "Yes, she was.
Moor Cottage, where your sister and Wiltmar lived, is surrounded by wide stretches of open not like this, to be sure, but not half-bad in its way, either." "Dolly grew to love that place, though she did write homesick letters at first. I was going over, after my coming out and then came that awful accident, when she and Wiltmar were both drowned and, of course, there was nothing to go for.
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