It's too serious.

It is really.

We've had something like a tragedy here in the last few days, and things seem to have been, as you would say, a good deal mixed up ever since.

I don't understand it a bit; but they have been." "But, my dear Niti, what on earth can you have to say to Lord Leighton about a--a female mummy?
What possible interest can a five-thousand-year-old corpse have for him ?" "Don't, Brenda, don't--at least not just now! Wait till I've told you, and then you'll see," said Nitocris, pressing her arm closer to her side.

"Lord Leighton is, as I think you know, an enthusiastic student of Egyptian antiquities.