CHAPTER XXXIV.
LORD ETHALWOOD AND HIS SOLICITOR.
“We have been singularly successful, my lord,” said Mr. Chicknell, after the detective had taken his departure. “We have not succeeded in finding your beloved daughter, but we have found your grandchild, who is beautiful, and who is moreover the image of her mother.”
“How do you know? You have not seen her,” observed the earl.
“That I admit, but Wrench has, and we can take his word.”
“What does Mr. Wrench say about her husband?”
“He says he is a fine handsome fellow. Not of high birth, it is true; but he is a superior man of his class.”
“And what might that be?”
“He is an engineer.”
“Does his wife seem warmly attached to him?”