She looked at him with quick curiosity. Then something had happened! There really was some great change in him. He smiled into her questioning eyes. "Then Mrs. Grenville did not tell you?"
"Tell me what?..." with swift eagerness. "O, do be quick, I love surprises. Have you found a gold-mine up there?... or the corpses in the temple hung with gold ornaments?..."
"Neither."
She took his arm and gave it a little shake.
"Then what? O, do tell me quickly!..."
"It isn't very much, but it gives me courage to hope, where a policeman might consider himself called upon only to renounce. And," he added, quietly, "I owe the knowledge of it to Mrs. Grenville."
"It must be a legacy?..."
"Not exactly. It is only that when the present Marquis of Toxeter dies I shall succeed."
"O, my goodness!..." comically. "Am I going to be own cousin to a marchioness?..."
"That is as your cousin decrees." Then with a little smile he added, "So the shocks are not all given by you, you see."