"Very highly indeed," said Isabel. "But at the cost of seeming both tasteless and ungrateful, I don＇t think I can marry Lord Warburton."
"Well," her uncle went on, "of course an old man can＇t judge for a young lady. I＇m glad you didn＇t ask me before you made up your mind. I suppose I ought to tell you," he added slowly, but as if it were not of much consequence, "that I＇ve known all about it these three days."