"They must be settled
with and discharged: I will give them the necessary explanation before
I leave. As for the house, no questions connected with it need trouble
you. The carriages and horses, the furniture and plate, and so on, must
simply be left on the premises to await Mr. Michael Vanstone's further
orders. But any possessions, Miss Vanstone, personally belonging to you
or to your sister--jewelry and dresses, and any little presents which
may have been made to you--are entirely at your disposal. With regard
to the time of your departure, I understand that a month or more will
elapse before Mr. Michael Vanstone can leave Zurich; and I am sure I
only do his solicitor justice in saying--"
"Excuse me, Mr. Pendril," interposed Norah; "I think I understand, from
what you have just said, that our house and everything in it belongs
to--?" She stopped, as if the mere utterance of the man's name was
abhorrent to her.
"To Michael Vanstone," said Mr. Pendril. "The house goes to him with the
rest of the property."
"Then I, for one, am ready to leave it tomorrow!"
Magdalen started at the window, as her sister spoke, and looked at Mr.
Clare, with the first open signs of anxiety and alarm which she had
shown yet.
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