You will have a couple of hundred thousand each.
Think of that! An annuity of ten thousand pounds.

There will be few richer young ladies in England.

Is it not glorious ?" I think that I must have been rather overacting my delight, and that she detected a hollow ring in my congratulations, for I saw her eyebrows rise a little, and she glanced at me curiously.
"If I have it," said she, "I owe it to you." "No, no," I answered, "not to me, but to my friend Sherlock Holmes.
With all the will in the world, I could never have followed up a clue which has taxed even his analytical genius.

As it was, we very nearly lost it at the last moment." "Pray sit down and tell me all about it, Dr.Watson," said she.
I narrated briefly what had occurred since I had seen her last,--Holmes's new method of search, the discovery of the Aurora, the appearance of Athelney Jones, our expedition in the evening, and the wild chase down the Thames.

She listened with parted lips and shining eyes to my recital of our adventures.