"Well, I always said you would. Do tell me all about it."
And Glynn began at the beginning, and did tell her everything.
"This is indeed extraordinary!" she exclaimed with unusual gravity, at the end of his narrative. "But after all, they have told you very little; there is some ugly secret behind."
"I suspect there is," very gravely.
"Now that you have found your fair Helen, what are you going to do with her?" asked Lady Gethin, looking sharply at him.
"Marry her," was the unhesitating reply.
"Good heavens, Hugh! you are not in earnest?"
"Very much in earnest, I assure you."
"But your future father-in-law may be a murderer."
"But my future wife is not a murderess."