"Why, you don't suppose I meant anything else! I wouldn't have been such a blackguard." "Well, go on, Richard.

Did she return your love ?" "I can't be certain.

Sometimes I thought she did, sometimes not; she used to play and shuffle, and she liked too much to be with--him.

I would think her capricious--telling me I must not come this evening, and I must not come the other; but I found out they were the evenings when she was expecting him.

We were never there together." "You forget that you have not indicted 'him' by any name, Richard.