The clouded light of her eyes, the magnificent gravity of her features, the conscious erectness of her head, might have belonged to a deposed sovereign or a condemned martyr.

"Why have you come here at this time ?" she asked.
"Your mother sent for me in pressing terms, and I was very glad to have an opportunity to speak to you." "Have you come to help me, or to persecute me ?" "I have as little power to do one as I have desire to do the other.
I came in great part to ask you a question.

First, your decision is irrevocable ?" Christina's two hands had been hanging clasped in front of her; she separated them and flung them apart by an admirable gesture.
"Would you have done this if you had not seen Miss Garland ?" She looked at him with quickened attention; then suddenly, "This is interesting!" she cried.

"Let us have it out." And she flung herself into a chair and pointed to another.
"You don't answer my question," Rowland said.
"You have no right, that I know of, to ask it.

But it 's a very clever one; so clever that it deserves an answer.