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" And he laughed.
"There's more dignity in the name, at any rate," said Lorimer. "But I
say, Mr. Gueldmar, you are 'up' in history much better than I am. The
annals of my country were grounded into my tender soul early in life,
but I have a very hazy recollection of them. I know Henry VIII. got rid
of his wives expeditiously and conveniently,--and I distinctly remember
that Queen Elizabeth wore the first pair of silk stockings, and danced a
kind of jig in them with the Earl of Leicester; these things interested
me at the time,--and they now seen firmly impressed on my memory to the
exclusion of everything else that might possibly be more important."
Old Gueldmar smiled, but Thelma laughed outright and her eyes danced
mirthfully.
"Ah, I do know you now!" she said, nodding her fair head at him wisely.
"You are not anything that is to be believed! So I shall well understand
you,--that is, you are a very great scholar,--but that it pleases you to
pretend you are a dunce!"
Lorimer's face brightened into a very gentle and winning softness as he
looked at her.


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