Then he said: "I see.

I must congratulate you." "On what ?" "On having bagged a brace--without accident to yourself.

But I have had enough of it." And without waiting for a reply to this very rude speech, he rose and flung himself across the lawn into the house.
Claudia seemed less angry than she ought to have been.

She sat with a little smile for a moment, then she threw her hat in the air and caught it, then lay back, sighed gently, and murmured: "Heigho! a brace means two, doesn't it?
Who's the other?
Oh! Mr.
Haddington, I suppose.

I didn't think he knew.