"Of course, you are a man--of a sort--and I am a woman, but I do not fancy that you would find, if it came to force, that you would have much of an advantage.

However, we are wandering from the point.

I claim an equal right with you to see anything which you may discover in Mr.Orden's papers.

I might, indeed, if I chose, claim a prior right." "Indeed ?" he answered, with an ugly scowl on his face.

"Mr.Julian Orden is by way of being a particular friend, eh ?" "As a matter of fact," Catherine told him, "we are engaged to be married.