I can tell you one thing: it's as likely as not that, in trying to overreach _her,_ he may (without in the least suspecting it) have ended in overreaching himself.'" (Geoffrey held his breath.

The pen dropped unheeded from his fingers.

It was coming.

The light that his brother couldn't throw on the subject was dawning on it at last!) Blanche resumed: "I was so interested, and it made such a tremendous impression on me, that I haven't forgotten a word.

'I mustn't make that poor little head of yours ache with Scotch law,' my uncle said; 'I must put it plainly.
There are marriages allowed in Scotland, Blanche, which are called Irregular Marriages--and very abominable things they are.