"Why shouldn't it, Lizzie?" he asks in return.
"I don't know," she replies, with somewhat of a serious look in her face. "It seems strange when you come to think of it. I couldn't help wondering about it last night in bed."
"Wondering in what way, Lizzie?"
"Just tell me if I am wrong in something you once said to me. You said you hadn't known Mr. Sheldrake very long."
"I might have told you so, Lizzie."
"But it is true, isn't it, daddy?"
"Yes, it is true."
"Then I remember you once said that nobody in the world does anything without a motive."
"Go on."
"So I put this and that together. Mr. Sheldrake hasn't known you very long. What motive can he have in being so kind to you?"