Who do _you_ say is the person pointed at in these rascally letters ?" The head clerk took up the first letter of the two and pointed to the opening sentence: "Sir Giles Mountjoy, I have a disclosure to make in which one of the members of your family is seriously interested." Dennis emphatically repeated the words: "one of the members of your family." His employer regarded him with a broad stare of astonishment.
"One of the members of my family ?" Sir Giles repeated, on his side.
"Why, man alive, what are you thinking of?
I'm an old bachelor, and I haven't got a family." "There is your brother, sir." "My brother is in France--out of the way of the wretches who are threatening me.

I wish I was with him!" "There are your brother's two sons, Sir Giles." "Well?
And what is there to be afraid of?
My nephew, Hugh, is in London--and, mind! not on a political errand.

I hope, before long, to hear that he is going to be married--if the strangest and nicest girl in England will have him.

What's wrong now ?" Dennis explained.

"I only wished to say, sir, that I was thinking of your other nephew." Sir Giles laughed.