Dr.Cumberledge, you are her cousin.

DO you gather that I have acted in such a way as to--to lead Miss Tepping to suppose I felt any affection for her ?" I laughed in his face.

"My dear boy," I answered, laying one hand on his shoulder, "may I say the plain truth?
A blind bat could see you are madly in love with her." His mouth twitched.

"That's very serious!" he answered, gravely; "very serious." "It is," I responded, with my best paternal manner, gazing blankly in front of me.
He stopped short again.

"Look here," he said, facing me.