“Well, children,” called Dr. Hume, “I daresay you’ll be interested in the news I am bringing you.”
“Wasn’t I right?” cried Billie.
“He was a prince?”
“Or a duke, perhaps?”
“Even a baron is pretty good.”
There was a long pause.
“You are wonderful guessers,” said the doctor. “He lived in a palace.”
“I knew it,” cried Mary.
“Would it disappoint you very much if I were to tell you that the gentleman without a memory who lived in a palace was not a prince, nor a duke, nor a baron, but at one time a clergyman?”
“Oh!” they exclaimed in varying tones of surprise and disappointment.