If I suffocated my stepmother, her own polite equivocation would justify the act.

She settled herself opposite to me in an armchair.

The agonies that she must have suffered, in preventing her face from expressing emotions of disgust, I dare not attempt to imagine, even at this distance of time.
"Now, Gerard, let us talk about the two ladies.

What do you think of my friend, Lady Rachel ?" "I don't like your friend, Lady Rachel." "You astonish me.

Why ?" "I think she's a false woman." "Heavens, what a thing to say of a lady--and that lady my friend! Her politics may very reasonably have surprised you.