"May I ask who you are ?" "Certainly.

A gentlemen, by courtesy and the grace of God." "And your name ?" "Count L'Estrange, at your service." Ormiston lifted his cap and bowed, with a feeling somehow, that the count was a man in authority.
"Mr.Ormiston assisted in doing a good deed, tonight, for a friend of mine," said the count.
"Will he add to that obligation by telling me if he has not discovered her again, and brought her back ?" "Do you refer to the fair lady in yonder house ?" "So she is there?
I thought so, George," said the count, addressing himself to his companion.

"Yes, I refer to her, the lady you saved from the river.

You brought her there ?" "I brought her there," replied Ormiston.
"She is there still ?" "I presume so.

I have heard nothing to the contrary." "And alone ?" "She may be, now.