Perchance the wisdom that I have inherited from my mothers straight back to Eve may help that which your mothers lacked.
Now, have you done with jests.

I listen, if it pleases you to tell me." So, having first invoked the curse of Heaven on him if ever he should breathe a word, Emlyn, with the help of Cicely, repeated the whole matter from the beginning, and the candles were lighted ere ever her tale was done.

All this while Jacob Smith sat opposite to them, saying little, save now and again to ask a shrewd question.

At length, when they had finished, he exclaimed-- "Truly women are fools!" "We have heard that before, Master Smith," replied Cicely; "but this time--why ?" "Not to have unbosomed to me before, which would have saved you a week of time, although, as it happens, I knew more of your story than you chose to tell, and therefore the days have not been altogether wasted.
Well, to be brief, this Dr.Legh is a ravenous rogue." "O Solomon, to have discovered that!" exclaimed Emlyn.
"One whose only aim is to line his nest with your feathers, some of which you have promised him, as, indeed, you were right to do.

Now he has got wind of these jewels, which is not wonderful, seeing that such things cannot be hid.