Does she know your brother ?" "So she says.

I didn't suppose Conrad ever went anywhere, except to tenement-houses." "It might have been there," Becton suggested.

"She goes among friendless people everywhere." "Maybe that's the reason she came to see us!" said Christine.
Becton looked at her with his smouldering eyes, and felt the wish to say, "Yes, it was exactly that," but he only allowed himself to deny the possibility of any such motive in that case.

He added: "I am so glad you know her, Miss Dryfoos.

I never met Miss Vance without feeling myself better and truer, somehow; or the wish to be so." "And you think we might be improved, too ?" Christine retorted.