The selfishness of youth is really astonishing.
Nothing--except perhaps toothache--can make a girl unhappy who is loved and newly betrothed.

She may say what she pleases, and her face may be a yard long when she speaks of the misfortunes of others, but all the time her heart is dancing.
To Lala Roy, the situation presented a problem with insufficient data, some of which would have to be guessed.

A letter, now lost, said that a certain case contained papers necessary to obtain an unknown inheritance for Iris.

How then to ascertain whether anybody was expecting or looking for a girl to claim an inheritance?
Then there was half a coat-of-arms, and lastly there was a certain customer of unknown name, who had been acquainted with Iris's father before his marriage.

So far for Iris.