I believe that you are a little prejudiced against Lord Arranmore." "I ?" She shrugged her shoulders.

"How should I be?
I have never spoken a word to him in my life.

But I think that he has a hard, cynical face, and a hateful expression." Brooks disagreed with her frankly.
"He seems to me," he declared, "like a man who has had a pretty rough time, and I believe he had in his younger days, but I do not believe that he is really either hard or cynical.

He has some odd views as regards charity, but upon my word they are logical enough." She smiled.
"Well, we'll not disagree about him," she declared.

"I wonder how long my uncle means to be." "Shall I find out ?" he asked.
"Would it be troubling you?
He is so excited that I dare say he has forgotten all about me." Which was precisely what he had done.