He diffused such portentous gloom into the atmosphere that I lost patience with him.
"What on earth are you so dismal about ?" I cried, being genuinely surprised and puzzled.

"One would think the girl was a state prisoner under your care." And suddenly I became still more surprised at myself, at the way I had somehow taken for granted things which did appear queer when one thought them out.
"But why this secrecy?
Why did they elope--if it is an elopement?
Was the girl afraid of your wife?
And your brother-in-law?
What on earth possesses him to make a clandestine match of it?
Was he afraid of your wife too ?" Fyne made an effort to rouse himself.
"Of course my brother-in-law, Captain Anthony, the son of.

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" He checked himself as if trying to break a bad habit.