"You know more about his partner ?" Thorne's manner appeared to change a trifle, which Mrs.Forel of course noticed.

"Yes," he said.
The lady thoughtfully smoothed out a fold of her dress.

"Well," she said with Western frankness, "I want to know a little about him, too." Thorne smiled as he saw there was no evading the issue.

"So I surmised from what your husband asked me.

Seaforth was considered a young man of promise when I knew him in England, and his family is unexceptional.
His father, however, lost a good deal of money, which presumably accounts for Charley having turned Canadian rancher." Mrs.Forel turned so that she could see her companion.