"Very well, sir," she said, in the tone of a determined person who is informed that the dentist is come to extract that large double tooth of his, from which he has suffered such a purgatory this month past. She left her sewing and her thimble in the window-seat, and followed her uncle where he led.
Shut into the drawing-room, the pair took seats, each in an arm-chair, placed opposite, a few yards between them.
"I have been to De Walden Hall," said Mr. Sympson. He paused. Miss Keeldar's eyes were on the pretty white-and-green carpet. _That_ information required no response. She gave none.
"I have learned," he went on slowly--"I have learned a circumstance which surprises me."
Resting her cheek on her forefinger, she waited to be told _what_ circumstance.

, and followed her uncle into the drawing room like a person about to undergo an extraction at the dentist.
"I have been to De Walden Hall," said Mr. Sympson. He paused. Miss Keeldar studied the carpet and gave no response.
"I have learned," he went on, "a circumstance which surprises me. 