But if she knew YOU to be the writer!' 'I should be ruined as far as this competition is concerned,' said Havill carelessly.

'Had I known I was to be invited to compete, I should not have written it, of course.

To be supplanted is hard; and thereby hangs a tale.' 'Another tale?
You astonish me.' 'Then you have not heard the scandal, though everybody is talking about it.' 'A scandal implies indecorum.' 'Well, 'tis indecorous.

Her infatuated partiality for him is patent to the eyes of a child; a man she has only known a few weeks, and one who obtained admission to her house in the most irregular manner! Had she a watchful friend beside her, instead of that moonstruck Mrs.Goodman, she would be cautioned against bestowing her favours on the first adventurer who appears at her door.

It is a pity, a great pity!' 'O, there is love-making in the wind ?' said Dare slowly.