Tell me why ?" "I know the so-called reason," replied John Law.

"'Twas brought out in his late case at the King's Bench." "True.

'Twas said that my grandfather, past eighty, was not the father of those children of his second wife.

There is talk that--" "'Twas three generations ago, this talk of the Knollys shortcoming.

I am not eighty.