"Clytie says you knew I had come."

"Clytie must have misunderstood. No one even intimated such a thing. I
came up to-day--I had to come--because--if I had known you were here,
wouldn't I have brought Allan?"

"Of course I was going to let you know, and come down in a few
days--there was some business to do here. Dear old Allan! I'm aching to
get a stranglehold on him!"

"Yes--he'll be so glad--there's so much to say!"

"I didn't know whom I should find here."

"We've had Clytie look after both houses--sometimes we've rented
mine--and almost every summer we've come here."

"You know I didn't dream I was rich until I got here. The lawyer says
they've advertised, but I've been away from everything most of the
time--not looking out for advertisements. I can't understand the old
gentleman, when I was such a reprobate and Allan was always such a
thoroughly decent chap."

"Oh, hardly a reprobate!"

"Worse, Nance--an ass--think of my talking to that dear old soul as I
did--taking twenty minutes off to win him from his lifelong faith. I
shudder when I remember it. And yet I honestly thought he might be made
to see things my way."