His smile died away, and, involuntarily, he turned a look of surprise on the speaker.
"You mean," said Lady Ogram, as though answering a remonstrance, "that you know all about that without my telling you.

Don't be touchy; you and I can understand each other well enough, if we like.

What I want to let yon know is, that I consider she has a claim upon me.

Not in the ordinary sense.

Perhaps I'm not quite an ordinary woman, and I see things in a way of my own.