It has become a normal thing that millionaires commence by going up to London with their tools at their back, and half-a-crown in their pockets.

That sort of origin is getting so respected,' she continued cheerfully, 'that it is acquiring some of the odour of Norman ancestry.' 'Ah, if I had MADE my fortune, I shouldn't mind.

But I am only a possible maker of it as yet.' 'It is quite enough.

And so THIS is what your trouble was ?' 'I thought I was doing wrong in letting you love me without telling you my story; and yet I feared to do so, Elfie.

I dreaded to lose you, and I was cowardly on that account.' 'How plain everything about you seems after this explanation! Your peculiarities in chess-playing, the pronunciation papa noticed in your Latin, your odd mixture of book-knowledge with ignorance of ordinary social accomplishments, are accounted for in a moment.