I am responsible for your doing something." "To whom are you responsible ?" Rowland, before replying, glanced at Miss Garland, and his glance made her speak quickly.

"Not to me!" "I 'm responsible to myself," Rowland declared.
"My poor, dear fellow!" said Roderick.
"Oh, Mr.Mallet, are n't you satisfied ?" cried Mrs.Hudson, in the tone in which Niobe may have addressed the avenging archers, after she had seen her eldest-born fall.

"It 's out of all nature keeping him here.
When we 're in a poor way, surely our own dear native land is the place for us.

Do leave us to ourselves, sir!" This just failed of being a dismissal in form, and Rowland bowed his head to it.

Roderick was silent for some moments; then, suddenly, he covered his face with his two hands.