‘So!—And you don’t care either to recover it, or to find out how you lost it!’
‘How can I? Where is Mr Close?’
‘Why, dead, years and years ago.’
‘So I understood. I can’t well apply to him, then, and I am certain no one else knows.’
‘Don’t be too sure of that. Perhaps Sir Giles—’
‘I am positive Sir Giles knows nothing about it.’
‘I have reason to think the story is not altogether unknown in the family.’
‘Have you told it, then?’
‘No, but I have heard it alluded to.’
‘By Sir Giles?’