'yes , i shall , ' said langtry , struggling silently to determine whether or not he was being lured into some sort of trap 'but why must we be so circumspect about the whole arrangement , i do n't ' 'darling , look , ' she said , dropping her voice , 'it 's all very nice about your organization , and your library and all your marvelous psychic investigations but do n't be a perfect fool ours is not a world of seances and mediums and dead relatives telling you to look between the pages of the bible for the deed to the property on eighth street or whatever as for the voodoo nonsense , that was a perfect scream and by the way , we do not have any scottish ancestors we were all french my uncle juhen made up something about a scottish castle he bought when we went to europe so do forget about all that , if you please but there are things i can tell you1 that 's just the point look , come around eight o'clock , will you7 but whatever you do , do n't be the first one to arrive now , i 've got to get off , you really can not imagine how dreadful everything is just now i 'll tell you frankly i never asked to be born into this mad family !