5/37 My dear Gerard! you look surprised. Surely you know who the ladies are ?" I was obliged to acknowledge my ignorance. "At any rate," she resumed, "you have heard of their father, Lord Uppercliff ?" I made another shameful confession. Either I had forgotten Lord Uppercliff, during my long absence abroad, or I had never heard of him. "And this is a foreign education!" she exclaimed. |