simply meant he hoped to get all of it. Oh, he did, did he!

Margaret powdered her nose viciously.

She

saw through him! His honest bearing she very plainly perceived

to be the result of consummate hypocrisy. In his laughter her keen ear

detected a hollow ring; and his courteous manner she found, at bottom,

mere servility. And finally she demonstrated--to her own satisfaction,

at least--that his charm of manner was of exactly the, same sort that

had been possessed by many other eminently distinguished criminals.

How did she do this? My dear sir, you had best inquire of your mother