Personally I've always been a bit sorry for Grimthorpe.

It is quite possible that all those hints as to his "queerness" were invented by his wife to excuse herself.

I only know that Science benefited greatly from his researches, and that he bequeathed some priceless collections to both branches of the British Museum.

Some one once told me he had a heart somewhere and had loved intensely a sister much younger than himself and had only begun to be "queer" and secretive and bald after her premature death.

I think also that in the last year of his life he was greatly embittered at not getting the expected peerage; after the trouble and disagreeableness he had gone through to obtain heirs for this distinction this poor little attempt at immortality which it is in the power of a Prime Minister to bestow.] The Grand Jury returned a true bill against Lady Shillito.