"I'd take him like a shot if I was a gel in your shoes."
"He told you I had refused to marry him?"
"A hundred times."
"Did you reward his confidence by relating the WHOLE history of the Castleton family?"
He stared at her. "Good Lord, do you think I'm an ass?"
"What have you told him?"
"Nothing. I permitted him to do all the telling. He gave me a highly commendable account of myself, of you, of the fine old family of Glynns and—God knows what all. He restored my pride, 'pon my soul he did." The Colonel laughed as he twisted his moustache with ironic fondness.
She was quite still for a minute or two. "I heard you were in England," she said, changing the subject.
"It may interest you to know that the old man overlooked us completely," he said, striking the calf of his leg with his thin walking-stick.
"Why should he leave anything to you?"