I only came to live with him a year ago; and I know nothing whatever of his affairs.

I do not even know who you are, or in what way your business is associated with him." She said this with a little deprecating smile, all conventional and altogether graceful; as though to express in the most genuine way her absurd ignorance.
He looked steadily at her for perhaps a quarter of a minute; then he spoke, beginning at once as though his mind were made up and his confidence established: "My name is Eugene Corbeck.

I am a Master of Arts and Doctor of Laws and Master of Surgery of Cambridge; Doctor of Letters of Oxford; Doctor of Science and Doctor of Languages of London University; Doctor of Philosophy of Berlin; Doctor of Oriental Languages of Paris.

I have some other degrees, honorary and otherwise, but I need not trouble you with them.

Those I have name will show you that I am sufficiently feathered with diplomas to fly into even a sick-room.