"If I had wished to learn the
amount of Bridget's income I should simply have paid a shilling and
gone to Somerset House to look at David Rosser's will. But I didn't.
I've a mind above that sort of thing."
"You wouldn't have got much information there," said Carrissima,
"because Mr. Rosser left nothing. Bridget's money came from her
mother."
"How did you discover that?" asked Colonel Faversham.
"Mark told me."
"Has he seen Bridget?" the colonel exclaimed in some surprise, because
he had spent the afternoon at Golfney Place and she had not for a
wonder mentioned Mark's name.
"Yes, he went after dinner last night," said Carrissima. "There's not
the least shadow of doubt that she has been waiting to see whether he
would ask her to marry him."
"Scandal!" shouted Colonel Faversham indignantly. "Abominable scandal!
How the devil is it possible you can know whether she expected Mark
Driver to ask her to marry him or not?"
"It is perfectly certain," said Carrissima, "that unless she marries
somebody or other she will find herself without any money to live upon."
Although Carrissima spoke after prolonged reflection, and considered
that the peculiar circumstances of the case justified the means she was
employing, she could not feel very pleased with herself.
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