It was the little round game of cards all over again; and she had not possessed the wit to detect the trick! And that was not all.

Her friend had witnessed it and understood! She heard her father presenting Walter Hine, and with almost intolerable pain she realized that had he wished to leave Chayne no single opportunity of misapprehension, he would have spoken just these words and no others.
"Wallie is the grandson--and indeed the heir--of old Joseph Hine.

You know his name, no doubt.

Joseph Hine's Chateau Marlay, what?
A warm man, Joseph Hine.

I don't know a man more rich.