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.