human
If we invite him to lunch here at the Knowle, he'll fall over himself to accept. Then we'll be able to kill two birds with one stone. He'll tell us things about the heirlooms at Valley House we shouldn't be able to find out without his help--or a lot of dreary drudgery--and also he'll put a paragraph about us in his newspaper, which he'll send to your cousins. Now, isn't that a combination of brilliant ideas?
gpt
Yes, laughed Annesley.
human
But why should you take so much trouble--and how can you tell that the editor's paragraph would make the Annesley-Setons want to know us?