human
How are we to set about it?
gpt
Oh, Valley House is a show place, I suppose you know, replied Knight.
human
I've looked it up in the local guide-book. It's open to the public three days a week. Any one with a shilling to spare can see the ancestral portraits and treasures, and the equally ancestral rooms of your distinguished family. Does that interest you?
gpt
Ye-es. But I'm a distant relation--as well as a poor one,
human
You're not poor now. And blood is thicker than water--when it's in a golden cup. It's Lord and Lady Annesley-Seton's turn to play the poor relations. It seems they're stony. Even the shillings the public pay to see the place are an object to them.
gpt
Oh, I'm sorry!
human
That's generous, seeing they never bothered themselves about you when they had plenty of shillings and you had none.
gpt
I don't suppose they knew there _was_ a me.