"It's rather odd," he remarked as he came back--"that's quite what I just said to him.

But he won't treat her to comedy." III "Is it the shock of the resemblance to her grandmother ?" Vanderbank had asked of Mr.Longdon on rejoining him in his retreat.

This victim of memory, with his back turned, was gazing out of the window, and when in answer he showed his face there were tears in his eyes.

His answer in fact was just these tears, the significance of which Vanderbank immediately recognised.

"It's still greater then than you gathered from her photograph ?" "It's the most extraordinary thing in the world.