Lady Grace took him aside.
She said, without preface: 'You've heard, have you!' 'You were aware of it ?' said he, and his tone was irritable with a rebuke.
'Coming through town, for the first time yesterday.

I had it--of all men!--from a Sir Abraham Quatley, to whom I was recommended to go, about my husband's shares in a South American Railway; and we talked, and it came out.

He knows; he says, it is not generally known; and he likes, respects Mr.Victor Radnor; we are to keep the secret.

Hum?
He had heard of your pretensions; and our relationship, etc.: "esteemed" it--you know the City dialect--his duty to mention, etc.

That was after I had spied on his forehead the something I wormed out of his mouth.