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'Tis he, methinks, poisoned her mind against me, and caused her to curse me on her deathbed." She gave a little shudder of superstition, perhaps. The maternal curse she felt was mayhap bearing fruit after all. Master Skyffington's watery eyes expressed gentle sympathy.
And she would in her simplicity and ignorance gladly have given every scrap of paper now in Master Skyffington's charge in exchange for a return of those happy illusions which had surrounded the early history of her love with a halo of romance.
The question was indeed necessary, for even to Master Skyffington's unobservant mind it was apparent that Sue's eyes had a look of aloofness in them, of detachment from her surroundings, which was altogether inexplicable to the worthy attorney's practical sense of the due fitness of things.
"And though his lordship hates me, he still prefers that my son should succeed to his title, rather than Sir Marmaduke whom he abhors." But that suggestion was altogether too much for poor Master Skyffington's sense of what was due to so noble a family, and to its exalted head.
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