I know that.
But I don't think even he can be so clever as he looks.

'Or you so stupid,' that's what you ought to say now." "Sometimes, Mr.Longstaff, I deny myself the pleasure of saying what I think." When all this was over she was very angry with herself for the anxiety she had expressed about Tregear.

This Mr.Longstaff was, she thought, exactly the man to report all she had said in the public room at the club.

But she had been annoyed by what she had heard as to her friend.

She knew that he of all men should keep himself free from such follies.