Mrs. Bradford and Miss Rush looked at one another with quick, surprised glances; but Bessie said, "Oh! you must be mistaken, Willie. It's quite _un_possible. Aunt Patty does not know you or your house, and she never went there. Besides, she does not"--"Does not like you to have the money," she was about to say, when she thought that this would be neither kind nor polite, and checked herself.