“Then – your name is not – Bury?” Sarida asked.
“Bury is my family name,” he answered, “but I am, in fact, the Duke of Inglebury!”
As he spoke, he reckoned that Sarida would be stunned into silence.
But to his surprise she exclaimed,
“Oh, I wish you had told Papa! He was so fond of your father.”
“Fond of my father?” the Duke asked in astonishment.
“They were friends and I remember years ago when I was a child going with Papa to Ingle Castle.”
For a moment the Duke was too surprised to say anything.
Then he queried,,
“You have not told me the name of your house.”
“It is Gale Priory,” she answered, “and I suppose – if you have been – deceiving me, I too have been deceiving you!”
“Gale Priory?” the Duke repeated. “Then your father was Lord Martyngale.”
“Like you,” Sarida answered,
