"Have you any other friends in town ?" asked Martin, who seemed to be trying to hide an odd kind of excitement.
"No," said Joan.

"Alice is my only friend here.

Drive to some place where I can call up Gilbert Palgrave and explain the whole thing.

What does it matter about my being alone?
If I don't mind, who should?
Please do as I say.

There's no other place for me to go to, and wild horses sha'n't drag me back." "You sha'n't go back," said Martin.