Then, you think, Mr.Lawyer, it will be as well to marry Henrietta to the baron, eh?
Very well! Let me add that on the day when Henrietta goes to the altar with Baron Leonard, I will make you a present of all this scribble.

Till then I shall require them.
Do you understand ?" Mr.Sipos was completely beaten; you might have knocked him down with a feather.

He had never been so badly worsted in his professional capacity.

Madame Langai would have besieged him with questions, but he avoided her, put on his hat and departed.
Madame Langai thereupon turned to her father: "What is the cause of this wondrous change ?" she cried.

"What secrets do those miraculous papers contain ?" Mr.Demetrius tucked the documents in question well beneath him and replied: "They contain secrets the discovery whereof will be a great misfortune and yet a great benefit to the parties concerned." "Have they any connection with Henrietta's wedding ?" "They have a direct bearing thereupon, and, indeed, necessitate it!" "Poor girl!" sighed Madame Langai.
* * * * * Mr.Sipos passed by his own dwelling three times before he knew that he had reached home, so confused was he by what he had just learnt.