You are not to tell her--promise me you will see to that."
"Of course I will arrange the affair any way you wish," Mr. Galbraith
agreed, with a dubious frown. "But if you are to marry her, I really
can't see what difference it would make."
"It will make a great deal of difference," declared the younger man.
"In the one case the fortune will be hers to use as she pleases. She
will have the independent right to hand it over to the Brewsters if she
so desires. Our entire relation will be placed on another basis; for
if I marry her under those conditions I marry an heiress, not the ward
of a poor fisherman."
"I hadn't thought of that."
"On the other hand, if she refuses the money, it will be mine to lay at
her feet. Can't you see what a vast contrast there will be in my
position?"
Mr. Galbraith nodded thoughtfully as if considering the matter from a
new angle.
"That's the only reason the fortune would mean anything to me--that I
might have something to offer her," continued Robert Morton. "Of
course, as you said, she would have the benefit of the money in either
case; but it makes a difference whether it comes to her by the mere
right of inheritance, or whether she takes it from her--husband.
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