"And the young woman of the house," asked Dr. Hood, with huge and silent amusement,
"what does she want?" "Why, she wants to marry him," cried Father Brown, sitting up
eagerly. "That is just the awful complication." "It is indeed a hideous enigma," said
Dr. Hood. "This young James Todhunter," continued the cleric, "is a very decent man
so far as I know; but then nobody knows very much. He is a bright, brownish little
fellow, agile like a monkey, clean-shaven like an actor, and obliging like a born
courtier. He seems to have quite a pocketful of money, but nobody knows what his
trade is. Mrs. MacNab, therefore (being of a pessimistic turn), is quite sure it
is something dreadful, and probably connected with dynamite.
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