Quite unexpectedly, I must admit, I came in for a considerable sum of money towards the end of my stay there.

I am paying off the mortgages at Dominey at once, and I want Henry to jot down on paper at once those few amounts he was good enough to lend me in the old days." Caroline, Duchess of Worcester, sat perfectly still for a moment with her mouth open, a condition which was entirely natural but unbecoming.
"And you mean to tell me that you really are Everard Dominey ?" she exclaimed.
"The weight of evidence is rather that way," he murmured.
He moved his chair deliberately a little nearer, took her hand and raised it to his lips.

Her face was perilously near to his.

She drew a little back--and too abruptly.
"My dear Everard," she whispered, "Henry is in the house! Besides--Yes, I suppose you must be Everard.

Just now there was something in your eyes exactly like his.