"You are flushed, and your eyes are shining, and really you look quite handsome.

Raffles has been telling you something! What was it?
Oh, I know! He has been telling you how he made his money.
Hasn't he, now ?" "Well, yes.

He took me partly into his confidence.

I congratulate you, Laura, with all my heart, for you will be a very wealthy woman." "How strange it seems that he should have come to us in our poverty.
It is all owing to you, you dear old Robert; for if he had not taken a fancy to you, he would never have come down to Elmdene and taken a fancy to some one else." "Not at all," Robert answered, sitting down by his sister, and patting her hand affectionately.

"It was a clear case of love at first sight.
He was in love with you before he ever knew your name.