Thorne wasn't rich, you see, but he comes of good people, and not long ago somebody left him all their money.

Quite romantic, isn't it?
Still, don't you think Miss Deringham would be thrown away upon anybody less than a baronet." Alton did not answer, but his face grew somewhat grim as once more he glanced across at Thorne.

This, he thought, was a good man, and he had all that Alton felt himself so horribly deficient in.

In the meanwhile Mrs.Forel was looking at Seaforth, who was talking to the wife of an English financier.
"I like your partner, and he is from the old country, too," she said.
"Of course you know what he was over there ?" It was put artlessly, but Alton's eyes twinkled.

"I'm afraid I don't, though I've no doubt Charley would have told me if I'd asked him," he said.