madonna with the yarnwinder painting

Rather better than winning the pools," he suggested.
　　She nodded, but her mind was elsewhere. Then shecame out abruptly with a question.
　　"Who gets it if I die?"
　　"As things stand now, it would go to your next ofkin."
　　"I mean – I couldn't make a will now, could I? Not until I was twenty-one. That's what someone told me."
　　"They were quite right."
　　"That's really ratherannoying. If I was married and died I suppose my husband would get the money?"
　　"Yes."
　　"And if I wasn'tmarried my mother would be my next of kin and get it. I really seem to have very fewrelations – I don't even know mymother. What is she like?"
　　"She's a veryremarkable woman," said Egerton shortly. "Everybody would agree to that."