Chapter 32

"You set out to teach me a lesson." He was speaking again. "I fully intended that you should. Your only miscalculation was that I had already determined to teach you one--one that you richly deserved. But I admit that I never even dreamed that the lesson would prove quite so subtly successful until this morning. And I'm profoundly sorry it has. I was very fond of my uncle." "Your uncle," she stammered. "What do you mean?" "There was a cousin of sorts, I believe," he said gravely. "There was, and--is. And he happens…