She is a clever young lady and makes out a good case against us, though I am sure I do not know whence she got her information.

Not from you, I suppose, Sir John--I beg your pardon, Mr.Blake." So the matter was settled, as both of them knew it would be when they left the room.

The cash found its way into some nebulous account that nobody could have identified with any party, and in the Dissolution Honours, John Blake, Esq., J.P., was transformed into Sir John Blake, Bart.; information that left tens of thousands of the students of the list mildly marvelling why.

As the same wonder struck them regarding the vast majority of the names which appeared therein, this, however, did not matter.

They presumed, good, easy souls, that John Blake, Esq., J.P., and the rest were patriots who for long years had been working for the good of their country, and that what they had done in secret had been discovered in high places and was now proclaimed from the housetops.
Lady Jane was inclined to share this view.