It seems that you are to undertake some great responsibility--to receive some proof of her confidence which will affect all the rest of your life.

More than that I don't know, but I understand that there has been a conversation between you, in which everything was fully explained." Constance nodded.

After a moment's reflection she raised her eyes to Lashmar's, and intently regarded him; her expression was one of anxiety severely controlled.
"You shall know what that responsibility is," she said, with a just perceptible tremor in her voice.

"Lady Ogram, like a good many other people nowadays, has more money than she knows what to do with.

For many years, I think, she has been troubled by a feeling that a woman rich as she ought to make some extraordinary use of her riches--ought to set an example, in short, to the wealthy world.