I'll hear anything that you have got to say, but on one condition: that is, that Miss Augusta Gresham shall be by while you say it.

Will you consent to that ?" "Miss Augusta Gresham," said he, "has no right to listen to my private conversation." "Has she not, Mr Moffat?
then I think she should have.

I, at any rate, will not so far interfere with what I look on as her undoubted privileges as to be a party to any secret in which she may not participate." "But, Miss Dunstable--" "And to tell you fairly, Mr Moffat, any secret that you do tell me, I shall most undoubtedly repeat to her before dinner.

Good morning, Mr Moffat; my feet are certainly a little damp, and if I stay a moment longer, Dr Easyman will put off my foreign trip for at least a week." And so she left him standing alone in the middle of the gravel-walk.
For a moment or two, Mr Moffat consoled himself in his misfortune by thinking how he might best avenge himself on Miss Dunstable.

Soon, however, such futile ideas left his brain.