But I know a good deal about her.

She made a big fortune with her dancing, and she invested largely in pearls and diamonds--I know that.

I also happen to know that she'd one son by her marriage, of whom she's passionately fond.

And I read this thing in this way: I guess the old Prince's estates (he's dead, a year or two ago) were heavily mortgaged, and she hit on the notion of clearing all off by selling her jewels, so that her son might start clear--no encumbrances on the property, you know." Allerdyke pursed his lips and rubbed his chin.
"What I don't understand is that she confided a quarter of a million's worth of goods of that sort to a man whom she couldn't know so very well," he observed.

"I never heard James speak of her." "That may be." replied Fullaway.