“Could you expect him to care for you as much?”
“I—I’d given up thinking he cared for me at all.”
“And this shows he did. In spite of all you made him suffer—and, what was
probably worse in his eyes, made your mother suffer—he loved you still. I
know you’re not thinking of the money, Frank.”
“No, I’m not; and that’s perfectly sincere.”
“You’re thinking of his affection for you; and now you’re assured of it.
The amount of money he left you is secondary. That, and the way in which
he left it to you, were determined by something else.”