“Are you telling me that when your father dies the money he has use of now will be yours?”
Norina had read her mother’s will and she knew that this was so.
She hesitated before she responded,
“I am not quite certain what the arrangements are, but I am sure Papa will tell you if you ask him.”
“Your father has told me, though in a somewhat garbled fashion,” Violet said. “I just wanted it confirmed.”
“Then there is really nothing I can say,” Norina answered.
“I thought when I married your father,” Violet snarled angrily, “that he was a very wealthy man.”
“We have always been able to have anything we wanted, Step-mama,” Norina said, “but perhaps you want different things from those Papa enjoyed before he married you.”
“What I want,” Violet replied, “is to make sure that I am not left p
