“Men of that sort, Percival, live long, and marry malevolently when you least expect it. I don’t give you much, my friend, for your chance of the three thousand a year. Is there nothing more that comes to you from your wife?”
“Nothing.”
“Absolutely nothing?”
“Absolutely nothing—except in case of her death.”
“Aha! in the case of her death.”
There was another pause. The Count moved from the verandah to the gravel
“Men of that sort, Percival, live long, and marry malevolently when you least expect it. I don’t give you much, my friend, for your chance of the three thousand a year. Is there nothing more that comes to you from your wife?”
“Nothing.”
“Absolutely nothing?”
“Absolutely nothing—except in case of her death.”
“Aha! in the case of her death.”
There was another pause. The Count moved from the verandah to the gravel
