"That tells me all, naturally."
"Nonsense. Her being a widow is really only a sort of accident in her life. Her husband was a V.C."
"What's that?"
"A brave man."
"What odd epithets you have over here. Well?"
"He's been dead thousands of years. She's intensely old."
"Why did you ask her, then?"
"Only because she worries the Duke."
"As Mr. Ingerstall worries the Duchess?"
"Oh no, quite differently."