A relation has left me a--a fortune, and when I met you here last night I was on my way to Bath to claim it.' Sir George passed from the surprise into which the first part of this speech had thrown him, to surprise still greater.

At last, 'I am vastly glad to hear it,' he said.

'For most of us it is easier to drop a fortune than to find one.' 'Is it ?' she said, and laughed musically, Then, moving her skirt to show him that he might sit down, 'Well, I suppose it is.

You have no experience of that, I hope, sir ?' He nodded.
'The gaming-table ?' she said.
'Not this time,' he answered, wondering why he told her.

'I had a grandfather, who made a will.