"I feel tolerably sure it is Weston, and that is the name of the people who own the place.

You don't appear to understand that the fact has its significance." "How ?" asked Ida.
"You haven't been in England or you'd understand.

The people who live in those old places are often very poor, but a certain number of them have something that the people who have only money would give a good deal to possess.

As a matter of fact, though distinctly human in most respects, they are--different." Ida laughed.
"Oh," she said, "I've naturally heard of that.

It's quite an old notion, and didn't originate with you English people.