This one opposes Miss Light, the other adores her! One suffers horribly at what the other does." "I don't understand double people, Cavaliere," Rowland said, "and I don't pretend to understand you.

But I have guessed that you are going to play some secret card." "The card is Mrs.Light's, not mine," said the Cavaliere.
"It 's a menace, at any rate ?" "The sword of Damocles! It hangs by a hair.

Christina is to be given ten minutes to recant, under penalty of having it fall.

On the blade there is something written in strange characters.

Don't scratch your head; you will not make it out." "I think I have guessed it," Rowland said, after a pregnant silence.