"Would you be surprised to know this ?" "Yes." "This surprise is waiting you.

Now then, who runs this house ?" "Paulina Koval." "Tell me the truth.

Who lets the rooms in this house, and who is responsible for the domestic arrangements of the house?
Tell me," said O'Hara, bearing down upon the wretched Rosenblatt.
"I--assist--her--sometimes." "Then you are responsible for the conditions under which Paulina Koval has been forced to live during these three years ?" Rosenblatt was silent.
"That will do," said O'Hara with contempt unspeakable.
He could easily have made more out of his sweating process had not the prisoner resolutely forbidden any reference to Rosenblatt's treatment of and relation to the unfortunate Paulina or the domestic arrangements that he had introduced into that unfortunate woman's household.

Kalmar was rigid in his determination that no stain should come to his honour in this regard.
With the testimony of each succeeding witness the cloud overhanging the prisoner grew steadily blacker.

The first ray of light came from an unexpected quarter.