"Will it come to aught ?" "Bent wants to trace his family history back to the Conquest," observed Brereton, slyly.

"He thinks the original Bent came over with the Conqueror.

But his old man hasn't got beyond the Tudor period yet." "Never mind!" said Bent.

"There were Bents in Highmarket in Henry the Seventh's time, anyhow.

And if one has a pedigree, why not have it properly searched out?
He's a keen old hand at that sort of thing, Kitely.