He won't have a word to say." "We don't really need to do that," she protested sweetly, naively.
"He's been in enough scrapes as it is.

He's given me some of the letters--" (she pronounced it "lettahs")--"written him." "But we'll need actual witnesses if we ever need anything at all.

Just tell me when he's in love again, and I'll do the rest." "You know I think," she drawled, amusingly, "that he is now.

I saw him on the street the other day with one of his students--rather a pretty girl, too." Cowperwood was pleased.

Under the circumstances he would almost have been willing--not quite--for Aileen to succumb to Sohlberg in order to entrap her and make his situation secure.