Sidney let his hat drop on to the chair, but remained standing, his arms resting on the back.
'It's a very short time since I myself knew of it,' he continued.

'Till then, I as little imagined as you did that--' He paused, then resumed more quickly, 'But it explains many things which I had always understood in a simpler way.' 'I feel, too, that I know grandfather much better than I did,' Jane said.

'He's always been thinking about the time when I should be old enough to hear what plans he'd made for me.

I do so hope he really trusts me, Mr.Kirkwood! I don't know whether I speak about it as he wishes.

It isn't easy to say all I think, but I mean to do my best to be what he--' 'He knows that very well.