"Heredity counts....

And after such a disaster!" She said "disaster," not "crime"; I noted mentally the reservation implied in the word.
"Heredity counts," I answered.

"Oh, yes.

It counts much.

But what about Le Geyt's family history ?" I could not recall any instance of suicide among his forbears.
"Well--his mother's father was General Faskally, you know," she replied, after a pause, in her strange, oblique manner.