"Never."
"But you have heard of her?"
"I just know her name,—hardly more. The last time your uncle was here,—Parson John, we were talking of her. He made her out to be wonderfully beautiful."
"That was as long ago as last summer," said the Captain, reflecting that his uncle's account had been given before he and Mary Lowther had seen each other.
"Oh, yes;—ever so long ago."
"She is wonderfully beautiful."
"You know her, then, Captain Marrable?"
"I know her very well. In the first place, she is my cousin."
"But ever so distant?"
"We are not first cousins. Her mother was a daughter of General Marrable, who was a brother of Sir Gregory's father."