"I want to ask you something," Isabel said to this young man the day after her arrival at San Remo—"something I＇ve thought more than once of asking you by letter, but that I＇ve hesitated on the whole to write about. Face to face, nevertheless, my question seems easy enough. Did you know your father intended to leave me so much money?"
Ralph stretched his legs a little further than usual and gazed a little more 昀xedly at the Mediterranean.