"At any rate, I'll not attempt to win it by fraud.

Miss Lorne, I am that man.

I am the 'Vanishing Cracksman' of those other days.

I've walked the 'straight path' since the moment I kissed your hand." She said nothing, made no faintest sound.

She couldn't--all the strength, all the power to do anything but simply stand and look at him had gone out of her.