"The little I did was done on the spur of the moment," she said. "I don't deserve any credit."
"Well, I may be inclined to think different when it comes to settling up. That depends on several things. We'll come to 'em by and by. You're English, ain't you?"
"Yes."
"H-m! You look as if you ought to have titles running in your family. Have you got any?"
Win fancied that this must be her employer's idea of a joke, but his face was grave, and even curiously eager. "Not one," she answered, smiling.
"No connections with titles?"
"Why, yes, we have some cousins afflicted in that way," she lightly admitted, beginning to be faintly amused as well as puzzled. "Almost every one has, in our country, I suppose."
"
What sort of title is it?"
"Oh, my father's second cousin happens to be an earl."