In which she spoke sincerely.

For although now the ruler, and, if the truth were known, the somewhat despotic ruler of Tallyn, in her husband's lifetime she had known very well how to obey.
"I have asked various people about the Mallorys," she resumed.

"But nobody seems to be able to tell me anything." "I trace her to Sir Thomas of that ilk.

Why not?
It is a Welsh name!" "I have no idea who her mother was," said Lady Lucy, musing.

"Her father was very refined--_quite_ a gentleman." "She bears, I think, very respectable witness to her mother," laughed Ferrier.