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Bill Chester had done his very best to persuade her to give up her silly
notion, but she had held good; she had shown herself, at any rate on this
one occasion, and in spite of her kindly, yielding nature, obstinate.
This was why her beautiful pearls had become to Sylvia Bailey a symbol of
her freedom. The thousand pounds, invested as Bill Chester had meant to
invest it, would have brought her in L55 a year, so he had told her in a
grave, disapproving tone.
In return she had told him, the colour rushing into her pretty face, that
after all she had the right to do what she chose with her legacy, the
more so that this thousand pounds was in a peculiar sense her own money,
as the woman who had left it her was her mother's sister, having nothing
to do either with her father or with the late George Bailey!
And so she had had her way--nay, more; Chester, at the very last, had
gone to great trouble in order that she might not be cheated over her
purchase. Best of all, Bill--Sylvia always called the serious-minded
young lawyer "Bill"--had lived to admit that Mrs.


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